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P: Backslash (view original photo) button does not work on a Hungarian keyboard.

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January 16, 2020
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Hi,

I use Lightroom Classic with a Hungarian keyboard and I would like to be able to see the original state of the photos. I can do this with the Y key, but the \ key doesn't work (on my Hungarian keyboard it's the AltGr + Q key). I have read many articles and many forum posts about this error. It seems that this is a common error with national character keyboards (I have read about such a problem with e.g. German and Dutch keyboards as well). In a couple of places, I came across such a evasive solution proposal that a configuration file must be created under Lightroom and the new hotkey can be entered in one line. I tried this too (maybe wrongly), but it didn't help either. I have the latest version of everything on my machine. I use Widows 11 in Hungarian, with a Hungarian keyboard. Maybe it would be worth combining the related forum posts, or if there is a workaround that works in all languages, then make it public. Of course, it would be best if Lightroom handled keyboards correctly, regardless of language. Dear Adobe colleagues! Can anyone confirm that Adobe is addressing this issue?

Best regards,

Péter

Windows

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alja?_9474

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It's just a differnet key. I'm Slovenian and the key for before/after is "ž", just left of "enter" key

johnrellis

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"It's just a different key. I'm Slovenian and the key for before/after is "ž", just left of "enter" key"

Hungarian Mac keyboards don't have that key. To type a \, you hold down the right-side Opt key and then ü:

But LR doesn't recognize the multi-key sequence as the shortcut for Before/After.

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alja?_9474

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I know. On my keyboard the backlash \ is "ALTgr + q" but Lr doesn't recognize the sequence, so I started pressing other buttons until I found the correct one. It's different depending on keyboard and language. On mine it just so happen to be "ž".

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erik_1838

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Hello,

I have a Problem with the Shift + V that normaly toggles the befor of the picture, it doesnt work anymore if i set my language to English if i switch to German it works. However on English it turns the picture black and white

I work on Windows 11 on German with Lightroom Classic V 14.2

But i realy want to use Lightroom in English.

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dj_paige

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In my English keyboard, in the Develop Module, the backslash key (looks like this: \ ) shows the "Before" photo

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erik_1838

Participant

Hi yeah but on German Keybords we need to press altgr to get \ and i think thats the reason why its not working, sadly.

elianoimperato

Known Participant

Except this, I think that LrC deserves an icon like in ACR or L(cc) for the before\after view option. I don't understand why LrC doesn't has it.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

The Before/After icon (button) does it for me with a comparitive screen.

But I prefer the keyboard shortcut [ \ ] backslash key.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.0, Photoshop 27.0, ACR 18.0, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0 .

elianoimperato

Known Participant

I'm asking for the spcific before\after button, it's a bit different from the Y\Y button.

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Simiruffi

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Dear Community

Best useful shortcut to see after/before modification is not working on LrC 13.3 in Delop mode.

I'm on Windows 11 with an QWERTZ Keyboard (CH-fr)

Is strange because, if I enter this caracter \ in the filter mask with it's key attribution the \ caracter is written.

Has someone an idea how to solve this?

Many thanks in advance

simiruffi

johnrellis

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Are you running LR in English or French?

If you're running LR in French, then the keyboard shortcut for Toggle Before/After is Opt X. See here for the list of all French shortcuts:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/keyboard-shortcuts/

If you're running LR in English, then you won't be able to use \ as keyboard shortcut (or any character that requires AltGr). The LR shortcut mechanism can't handle the use of AltGr as a modifier (as it can Ctrl, Alt, and Shift). You can use the Any Shortcut plugin to assign another shortcut to Toggle Before/After.

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Simiruffi

Participating Frequently

Perfect it works, thank you @johnrellis 🙂
I have to switch LrC in French and Alt + x shortcut works now 🙂

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Severin28568843iari

Participant

Hi everyone

Ive run into a little problem with my shortcuts...

to see the Before / After editing Preview, there is normaly the Shortcut [\]. but somehow this does not work on my new Keyboard. Maybe because the Keyboard i use is german?

Is there a possibility to replace the shortcut with another letter/symbol?

as you can see the [\] key is in the green highlighted box.

does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix my problem?

Thanks in advance!!!

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Just a guess!- Try [Shift+V]

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/keyboard-shortcuts/languages/

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.0, Photoshop 27.0, ACR 18.0, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0 .

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Severin28568843iari

Participant

thanks for the tip! But it still does not work...

i'll keep on looking for a solution.

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Community Manager

~~Create ticket to investigate and updated status~~

This is not a bug as Lightroom does not support Hungarian.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

johnrellis

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I see the same misbehavior in my LR 13.1 / Windows 11 when Hungarian is selected as the input language and using the On-Screen Keyboard app. Typing "AltGr q" enters a \ when the input focus is in a LR text field (e.g. Caption), but it is ignored as the shortcut for Toggle Before/After in Develop.

Perhaps the cause of this bug is that LR is seeing the key combination AltGr q (analagous to, say, Ctrl A), not "\".

LR defines the shortcut as something other than \ in many of its supported languages, probably for the same reason that it doesn't work in Hungarian:

You could use the Any Shortcut plugin to change the assigned shortcut to something else.

johnrellis

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@Rikk Flohr: Photography, please consider moving to Bugs. I am able to reproduce the misbehavior (see my previous post).

johnrellis

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My apologies, for some reason I concluded you were on Mac, but your post clearly shows you on Windows. I'll investigate Windows later today.

johnrellis

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~~"but the \ key doesn't work (on my Hungarian keyboard it's the AltGr + Q key)"~~

~~1. Are you running LR in English?~~

~~2. Are you running Mac OS in Hungarian or English?~~

~~3. Which keyboard layout is shown in the Mac Input menu? See step 1 of this article for how to access the Input menu:~~

~~https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-the-keyboard-viewer-on-mac-mchlp1015/mac~~

In my Mac OS 14.2.1, when I use the Hungarian keyboard viewer with the ANSI or ISO layouts, Opt/Alt ü produces a \. When I use the Hungarian QWERTY keyboard viewer, it's Opt/Alt ű. In LR running in English, using those key combinations toggles the before/after view in Develop.