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Anonymous
May 5, 2011
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P: Allow for keyboard shortcut customization

Customizable keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom would be great. I just find it so confusing that crop and brush tools and things like that have such odd keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom. I understand that changing that all now would be awful for many existing users, but being able to override them like I can in Photoshop would be helpful. Doesn't anyone else out there find they use to wrong keyboard shortcuts in the wrong program?

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    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    October 16, 2020

    The Keyboard Tamer plugin lets you define shortcuts and quickly restore them after an update to the application.

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    ouiouiphoto
    ouiouiphoto
    Known Participant
    October 16, 2020

    Yes it is just a trick 😉 

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    .Sheepdog trying to help Lightroom and Photoshop beginners
    lwdgrfx
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    October 16, 2020

    Thanks, Ouioui - I didn't know that I could do that but if they are shortcuts which can be overwritten so easily, they're no good for my purposes.  Merci! 

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    ouiouiphoto
    ouiouiphoto
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    October 16, 2020

    In fact you can change the shortcut today but it will be overwriten when you will update. Go to

     

    C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic\Resources\fr (for french for exemple)

     

    and look inside the text file TranslatedStrings_Lr_fr_FR.txt you will find things like

     

    "$$$/AgApplication/Menu/Window/SecondMonitor/ZoomInShortcut=Cmd+Shift+="

     

    You can then change the shortcut at your own risk

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    .Sheepdog trying to help Lightroom and Photoshop beginners
    lwdgrfx
    Participating Frequently
    October 16, 2020

    Oh, and let us change these shortcuts according to user and/or language.  

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    lwdgrfx
    Participating Frequently
    October 16, 2020

    Yes! Please make this happen!  And then let us print out a list of all shortcuts with an automatic date stamp! 

     

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    October 16, 2020

    It would be really great if the user could define keyboard shortcuts!

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    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    October 9, 2020

    While waiting for LR to provide easy keyboard customization (which we've been waiting for a long time, unfortunately), it is possible to assign, change, or disable most shortcuts by using the Keyboard Tamer plugin, changing the shortcuts in System Preferences on Mac, or by editing Translating Strings.txt on Windows and Mac.

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    chrisoaten
    Inspiring
    October 8, 2020

    Any shortcut customisation, including disabling shortcuts, would be welcome.

     

    Hello, Adobe? Hello? Adobe? Hello?

     

    <tumbeweeds>

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