Nightly PCBNEW : Hotkey recording troubles

Bug #1833813 reported by Michele Giorato
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
Expired
Low

Bug Description

I detected some anomalies in the hotkey management.
I state that I have brought them back to default settings several times but nothing changes.
Specifically, I needed to increase / decrease the opacity of the layer.
By default the assigned keys are '{' and '}'. I have tried and does not change the opacity. Given that in the Italian keyboard the '}' is 'AltGr Shift +' and it is particularly inconvenient I thought of redefining the hotkey.
The surprise was that in the preferences when redefining the hotkey by pressing 'AltGr Shift +' is captured as 'Ctrl Alt }'.
I can also understand the Alt but I never pressed the CRTL ...
I noticed that the anomaly occurs with many other combinations involving Altgr.
To avoid confusion, Altgr is the alternate key to the right of the space bar.

Application: Pcbnew
Version: 6.0.0-unknown-r16203-d132cf37, debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.64.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1c zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) libssh/0.8.7/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.38.0
Platform: Linux 5.1.11-300.fc30.x86_64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.69.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.64.0
    Compiler: GCC 9.1.1 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

Tags: hotkeys pcbnew
Revision history for this message
Seth Hillbrand (sethh) wrote :

I have a branch working on alternate keys for mapping including meta, altgr and the Mac ctrl key.

Changed in kicad:
assignee: nobody → Seth Hillbrand (sethh)
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → 6.0.0-rc1
status: New → In Progress
tags: added: hotkeys pcbnew
Revision history for this message
KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote :

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1908

Changed in kicad:
status: In Progress → Expired
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