On 8/25/24 08:29, Darac Marjal wrote:
On 24/08/2024 23:50, gene heskett wrote:
I need to know how to totally disable t-birds hot keys. I mean I don't
want it to happen unless I have actually clicked on a command with the
mouse. If I didn't click on it, it doesn't happen, it can't happen.
I have a feeling that, strictly speaking, this will be impossible. For
example, when editing a message, such as I am now, Ctrl+A selects all
the text, Home moves to the start of the line etc. These are _probably_
inherent parts of the text control (rather than being something that
Thunderbird explicitly controls), but let's see.
Clicking on Help > Keyboard Shortcuts takes me to
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-thunderbird?redirectslug=keyboard-shortcuts&redirectlocale=en-US (I'm not sure why it's insistent I use the en-US locale when my system should be en-GB, but that's beside the point). The only mention of editing/disabling shortcuts is this one line:
> Some shortcuts can be customized or disabled with the use of an add-on.
So "some" shortcuts can be [...] disabled, but it doesn't tell you how.
But maybe if there is a particular hotkey that's causing a problem,
someone else might have had the same problem and written an add-on you
can look for?
Thank you.
Well, i'll be typing along, have most assuredly not done a ctl+a, but
all the text will high light, and the next keystroke deletes it all.
Sometimes I can recover with some undo's. Or the message goes away, and
half an hour later I notice there is an unsent msg in the outbox, and it
might be the disappeared msg, but not always. About 50% of the time it
might be a resurrection/read msg dated months ago. This problem has
survived 3 keyboards(this particular one is wired others were wireless,
logitech K360's which I like because the keytops are square and I use
them in the garage with my cnc machines because the keys are almost 100%
immune to a bit of swarf following the key down and wedging it down,
very dangerous when the machine is being jogged into position for the
next cut and doesn't stop when your finger is removed from a stuck key)
and 4 or 5 different rodents. Exasperating as can be. And dangerous
since some of the machines are strong enough to kill.
Is there such a hotkey lock out in tbird?
Thank you all;
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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