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Originally Posted by Quoth
Co-incdently I went to Preferences in Calibre this morning and edited or deleted any Keyboard shortcuts that:
1. Plain key or shifted key. Because so annoying when focus accidentaly changed and you think you are entering text.
2. Use Ctri-Alt because Alt-Gr can mean that. On my OS layout altgr b =” and altgr B =’, but it was executing commands in some parts of Calibre.
So now only ctrl, alt, ctl-shift, alt-shift.
Still not sure why in Editor — and – work in the code window (Compose --- and Compose --.) but not the Search & Replace boxes. I have to type in code window Ctrl x then ctrl p in string box.
By default on Linux the AltGr key does more than windows αινσϊ ΑΙΝΣΪ; virtually every printable key gives extra characters which are used in Western Europe. Compose also allows accenting letters with every sort of diacritic. I added Compose g* and Compose G* for lower and upper Greek.
The CapsLock is mapped to Compose and if I really want CapsLock it's both shift keys.
It's the IBM/MS way that's bad, especially IBM USA Minimal keyboard with one less printing character key. It's based on a 1928 Teletype.
I'm no Apple fan, but they did make some effort, though why they didn't make keyboard more like Unix/Solaris from iMac onwards is odd.
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Why not just use a standard keyboard instead of the Apple layout? Oh right, the better standard is not designed by Apple so Apple has to do it the hard way so it will be their way.