special hotkeys don't work

Equal · 09-25-2018, 02:44 AM

Hi,

For some reason I cannot make reaper respond to the ctrl, shift and other special keys for binding new actions.
Is this a known bug, of do I need to change something in my operating system (Ubuntu 18.04)

Thanks in advance for your help!

Jack Winter · 09-25-2018, 03:17 AM

My guess is that your DE/WM is overriding the specific hotkeys for some other purpose. For instance Alt-click is mostly used to move X windows around, so unless reconfigured it won't reach reaper.

Glennbo · 09-25-2018, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack Winter

My guess is that your DE/WM is overriding the specific hotkeys for some other purpose. For instance Alt-click is mostly used to move X windows around, so unless reconfigured it won't reach reaper.

One thing I ran into was with Pulse Audio. Pulse now has profiles for media players, and wants to own some keys on the keyboard. The effect I saw from it was that some keys did not work at all when prompted for a key-combination while creating shortcuts.

I had to right click the Pulse audio speaker icon, go into properties, and disable the control of keys and media players.

Equal · 09-27-2018, 01:11 AM

Thanks for the help guys. Unfortunately both options did not work.
So I will continue searching!

For some reason the shortcuts do work on the laptop, but not with my usb keyboard which is connected to the laptop.

Snap · 09-27-2018, 10:35 PM

Try to change the keyboard model in your keyboard settings. Usually DEs have tools for that and ways to switch maps, models and layouts using kkb. Anyway this should help to check your current settings.

Code:

setxkbmap -query

This should help too

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php..._configuration

09-25-2018, 02:44 AM	#1
Equal Human being with feelings Join Date: Jun 2018 Posts: 67	special hotkeys don't work Hi, For some reason I cannot make reaper respond to the ctrl, shift and other special keys for binding new actions. Is this a known bug, of do I need to change something in my operating system (Ubuntu 18.04) Thanks in advance for your help!

09-25-2018, 03:17 AM	#2
Jack Winter Human being with feelings Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Luxembourg/Spain Posts: 1,922	My guess is that your DE/WM is overriding the specific hotkeys for some other purpose. For instance Alt-click is mostly used to move X windows around, so unless reconfigured it won't reach reaper. __________________ Reaper for Linux Documentation (WIP). Software: Archlinux/KDE, Fabfilter FX, Komplete 8, Nebula, Schwa/Stillwell, T-racks Max/Amplitube/SVX, etc. Gear: i7-2600k/4700HQ/16GB, RME Multiface/Babyface, Behringer X32, Genelec 8040, etc. :)

09-27-2018, 10:35 PM	#5
Snap Human being with feelings Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 850	Try to change the keyboard model in your keyboard settings. Usually DEs have tools for that and ways to switch maps, models and layouts using kkb. Anyway this should help to check your current settings. Code: setxkbmap -query This should help too https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php..._configuration

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09-27-2018, 01:11 AM	#4
Equal Human being with feelings Join Date: Jun 2018 Posts: 67	Thanks for the help guys. Unfortunately both options did not work. So I will continue searching! For some reason the shortcuts do work on the laptop, but not with my usb keyboard which is connected to the laptop.