Hotkeys Not Triggering Often - Works For Short Periods Only !

[total_annihilation00]

The custom shortcut keys I assigned either keep getting unresponsive or stop getting triggered from time to time !!  I really would like there to be a more robust hotkey system with persistence. Usually this happens when I close & restart quickly —I depend a lot on the shortcuts keys, please try to fix them in a future release.

[AlanJB]

I also have this problem once or twice a week.  I agree it is more likely to occur when I close & restart MC quickly.

I have noticed that when the instance without a loaded CustomKeymappings.xml is closed, it does not overwrite my (correct) CustomKeymappings.xml.
So a restart (or three) of the program eventually reads and loads the correct CustomKeymappings.xml

@total_annihilation00, what antivirus do you use?

[total_annihilation00]

I use COMODO Internet Security Premium (free)

[Mathias (Author)]

Is it all keys or some ?
I have not been able to reproduce it.  But it loads keys and other things parallel during start up so it can be a race condition.. it can be that some commands are setup before all customized keys are finished loaded. I will move around so customized keys are loaded earlier for the next release.

[AlanJB]

I use COMODO Internet Security Premium (free)

I'm using Avast Premium (paid for), so that's not a common factor...

[AlanJB]

Is it all keys or some ?
I have not been able to reproduce it.  But it loads keys and other things parallel during start up so it can be a race condition.. it can be that some commands are setup before all customized keys are finished loaded. I will move around so customized keys are loaded earlier for the next release.

Hi Mathias.  For me it's all user-defined keys.  Key bindings revert to OOB values.

Thanks for taking a look.

[Jungle]

I reassigned Rename from default Shift+F6 to F2. At the first launch after update to 13.4 both shortcuts stopped working. And AFAIR Rename item disappeared from the keyboard customization dialog (but I'm not sure). But I was unable to find there neither F2 nor Shift+F6. After restart everything came back to normal state.

[Mathias (Author)]

I reassigned Rename from default Shift+F6 to F2. At the first launch after update to 13.4 both shortcuts stopped working. And AFAIR Rename item disappeared from the keyboard customization dialog (but I'm not sure). But I was unable to find there neither F2 nor Shift+F6. After restart everything came back to normal state.

Sound like it is a race condition.. file is already loaded into Windows cache the second time and the loading goes faster, so it able to load the file before it setups the commands..

[total_annihilation00]

Is it all keys or some ?
I have not been able to reproduce it.  But it loads keys and other things parallel during start up so it can be a race condition.. it can be that some commands are setup before all customized keys are finished loaded. I will move around so customized keys are loaded earlier for the next release.

Some user-defined keys retain, some all lost. Thanks for the new Beta update, I believe it solves it —but I'd have to leave it open for some time as I've noticed over extended idle time it can sometimes stops responding. But as for in-between restarts, it appears fine now.

[AlanJB]

Hi Mathias - some feedback for you.

Build 2983 seems to have fixed the race condition causing custom key bindings to be lost.  Tested for nearly two months now.

Thanks.

[AlanJB]

Hi Mathias.

FWIW this problem is back since I bought a new, much upgraded PC (AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, SSDs all round).

It happens at least one per day, sometimes more often.

[total_annihilation00]

Yes sometimes the Hotkeys does not trigger, but it happens ever so rarely for me. Also could be the built-in Picture Viewer —I switched to JPEGView app (on Github) to handle opening my image previews & had great success in doing so.

I would also like to address the issue of being able to re-assign Next/Previous Tab Navigate to a custom hotkey (in my case I want Ctrl+Page Up/Page Down to cycle between Tabs ! This would be optimal for my use, as it more closely mimics my Edge Browser shortcut key.