Keyboard shortcuts triggered when entering keywords

[victore2045391]

Every now and then, more often than should happen (should never happen), when I am entering text into the keywords field, LR thinks I am trying to use a keyboard shortcut. Often times this invokes a feature I have no idea how to exit from. Is there any way to disable this "feature"? Alternatively, is there some generic keystroke I can use to undo a keystroke shortcut? This can be extremely aggravating.

Just now it happened when I was trying to add the keyword smilax. S was retained, but M wasn't so maybe it was either s or m that triggered the shortcut. The image I was working on displayed in the center of the screen with everything else dark. I quite LR to resolve the issue.

[JohanElzenga · Accepted solution]

This is a known issue with MacOS 12. You do not give any information about the version of your OS, but I bet that's what you use. If you can upgrade MacOS, do so and the problem will be solved.

[victore2045391]

Interesting - I had not idea it was a known issue. I'm using MacOS 12.6.3. I will be upgrading the OS soon because Apple now requires a later version of Xcode that I have installed by the end of April, and that requires an OS upgrade (I'm an iOS developer). Meanwhile, using the keyboard settings app, I remapped all the single alpha keystroke shortcuts available in the Library module to something else.

[Conrad_C]

And just to be clear, what is meant by “upgrade” here is not just to a point update of macOS 12, but to a later major upgrade such as macOS 13 or 14.

[victore2045391]

I had just upgraded Lightroom Classic to the latest version.

[JohanElzenga]

I had just upgraded Lightroom Classic to the latest version.

By @victore2045391

I think that is what triggered it. Lightroom Classic 13.2 is not fully compatible with MacOS 12, previous versions probably did not have this issue.

[victore2045391]

Yes, they did. It's most aggravating in the print module. I resorted to using cut/paste when I made a photo book or some such thing a year or two ago.