Hotkey with shift does not work in pcbnew

[Oleg Endo]

On my keyboard, the default hotkey for switch track posture '/' is on physical shift+7. It's been broken for a while now. When I press shift+7 during routing, the shift key state is ignored and it sees the '7' hotkey instead

Application: Pcbnew
Version: 6.0.0-unknown-7b5b807~86~ubuntu18.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.15.0-55-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.22
    Boost: 1.65.1
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.58.0
    Compiler: GCC 7.4.0 with C++ ABI 1011

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

[Michael Kavanagh (michaelkavanagh)]

@Oleg, Is it just the switch track posture action or all hotkeys that require shift?

[Ian McInerney (imcinerney)]

I see this issue as well, and it relates to the processing of the shifted keys in the hotkey dispatch. See here for more discussion: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg41754.html.

[MightyPork (mighty-pork)]

I had something similar where Ctrl+D stopped working in eeschema after updating KiCAC, but turned out that something changed in the hotkey logic, or defaults, and there was a conflict b/w Duplicate and Show Datasheet. As a result it never did anything, maybe because I don't use datasheet links. I thought ctrl stopped working.

Just dropping this here in case anyone finds this issue with the same problem I had. It is likely unrelated.

[Oleg Endo (oleg.endo)]

Actually, I can't assign hotkey which contain the shift key properly ... sometimes ... or so.

For example, trying to set "shift + del" -> only del is recorded.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1809