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MartinC_Photos
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December 20, 2023
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Custom Keyboard Shortcuts Not Working

  • December 20, 2023
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I set up a custom keyboard shortcut which shows correctly within the LR Classic menu (see screenshot) and works correctly if you mouse click to the item on the menu, but doesn't work as a keyboard shortcut. It behaves as if the ctrl key isn't working (which it clearly is because I used it to define the keyboard shortcut).  

If it isn't obvious from the screenshots, I set ctrl+9 to set the colour label to Purple and ctrl+0 to set the color label to none. 

A bug? Or am I doing something wrong?

Lightroom Classic 13.1

Mac Monterey 12.7.2

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    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Brainiac
    December 20, 2023

    Instead of "Photo->Set Color Label->Purple" in App Shortcuts, use "Purple".  The hierarchical naming of menu commands was introduced into System Settings a couple years ago, I think, and LR isn't compatible with it.

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    MartinC_PhotosAuthor
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    December 20, 2023

    I tried that the first time and I had the same result.

    Also, "Purple" applies to more than one shortcut: Photo>Set color label; and Library>Filter by colour label. So its not to clear (to Lightroom) which one the shortcut relates to.

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Brainiac
    December 21, 2023

    Thanks @johnrellis, I followed your advice above but no joy I'm afraid. Menu is showing shortcut correctly (as in my first screenshots) but Lightroom is behaving as if the CTRL key has not been pressed. i.e. ^0 sets rating to zero stars; and ^9 sets color label to Blue. Surely this is a LR bug? 


    I don't know what accounts for the difference between our two situations.

     

    Are you typing 9 on the top row of keys or on the numeric keypad?

    Are you on a US English keyboard or a different language keyboard?

    In which language are you running Mac OS?

     

    Unfortunately, Adobe likely won't pay any attention to problems with changing keyboard shortcuts.

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