Is there a keyboard shortcut to do a hard refresh of the book list?

ownedbycats · 10-09-2021, 12:55 PM

Example: One of the sub-searches for my cleanup VL contains a bunch of books missing a chapter count. I add a chapter count to a book. Then I press F5 to Re-apply current sort. This does a soft refresh the list and removes the column icon, but does not actually remove the book from the list.

View Manager's "re-apply view" would be an option, except that I don't have a specific view for my Cleanup VL (as which columnset I'm using depends on the books).

Going to the search bar and pressing enter does a hard refresh and removes the invalid books, but I'm not sure how to quickly switch to it via keyboard shortcut.

chaley · 10-09-2021, 02:18 PM

If you want to focus the search box, on Windows the shortcuts are 'Ctrl+f', 'Alt+s', and '/'. The 'f' and 's' can be upper or lower case. I don't know if the same shortcuts work on Macs and Linux.

Most built-in shortcuts are documented here.

BetterRed · 10-09-2021, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chaley

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Most built-in shortcuts are documented here.

FWIW: one of the built-in shortcuts is Ctrl+Esc to Clear the Virtual Library.

That doesn't work on Windows 10, because it is used to pop the Start Menu.

Because I use Ctrl+Alt+→ and Ctrl+Alt+← for Next & Previous VL tab I customised it to Ctrl+Alt+↑.

AFAIK no one has ever complained, which might suggest no one but me has ever tried to use it

I find it useful because it lands on the current book in the All Books tab.

BR

ownedbycats · 10-09-2021, 04:32 PM

Considering that newer versions of Calibre require Windows 10 anyways, might be worth putting in a request over on the bug tracker.

10-09-2021, 12:55 PM	#1
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,829 Karma: 74203799 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Is there a keyboard shortcut to do a hard refresh of the book list? Example: One of the sub-searches for my cleanup VL contains a bunch of books missing a chapter count. I add a chapter count to a book. Then I press F5 to Re-apply current sort. This does a soft refresh the list and removes the column icon, but does not actually remove the book from the list. View Manager's "re-apply view" would be an option, except that I don't have a specific view for my Cleanup VL (as which columnset I'm using depends on the books). Going to the search bar and pressing enter does a hard refresh and removes the invalid books, but I'm not sure how to quickly switch to it via keyboard shortcut.

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10-09-2021, 02:18 PM	#2
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,375 Karma: 8012652 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	If you want to focus the search box, on Windows the shortcuts are 'Ctrl+f', 'Alt+s', and '/'. The 'f' and 's' can be upper or lower case. I don't know if the same shortcuts work on Macs and Linux. Most built-in shortcuts are documented here.

10-09-2021, 04:32 PM	#4
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,829 Karma: 74203799 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Considering that newer versions of Calibre require Windows 10 anyways, might be worth putting in a request over on the bug tracker.