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Platform Specific Key Conflicts?

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#1

Some shortcuts conflict with key bindings used for the platform, I’d like to collect a list of these, then check on solutions - at the very least we could have preferences for alternative bindings.

Starting with a list of 1, asking if users are aware of any others so we can resolve this for 2.80 release.

Are there other keys used by the key-map that conflict default operating system keys?

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#2

  • Ctrl-Space / Ctrl-Alt-Space (Ctrl-Shift-Space for some reason too)

    macOS, next/previous input source (language)
    https://developer.blender.org/T62740

  • Cmd-Space / Cmd-Alt-Space
    also unavailable, conflicts with macOS desktop search

    available Shift-Space, Alt-Space, Shift-Alt-Space, Cmd-Shift-Space

  • Cmd-Alt-Q and some other conflicts with the hard-coded Cmd shortcut
    https://developer.blender.org/T64655

Some keyboards, such as Spanish or German, do not have the “Accent Grave” key at all,
or in some languages, it’s “dead key”.
https://developer.blender.org/T61359

There is also a common problem with handling “dead keys” in Blender.
https://developer.blender.org/T62456

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#3

Not directly related to the OS, but in the Italian keyboard layout the accent grave used for view navigation is not accessible directly, in unix systems I think it can be typed with the alt gr modifier + ', but on windows it’s only possible with the ASCII table.

I noticed that for some reason the key get converted to ò, and the same happens to /, converted to ù, but there is no way to discover this unless you randomly press buttons on the keyboard.

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#4

Hi!

Please read my latest post. This is not a problem with Ubuntu. Apologies!
https://developer.blender.org/T55194#685657