Provide Keyboard Shortcuts for non-US layouts or customizable shortcuts
Non-US layouts often don't have keys that are used in common shortcuts such as "/" or "[". Adding alternatives for these users would help with workflows and reach in extended markets.
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21 May, '25
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While this might work in the US or Western Europe, most Central and Eastern European languages are full of diacritic letters, making their alphabets much larger than, say, English (eg. the 26 letters in English vs 44 letters in Hungarian or 46 in Slovakian). These extra characters take up space on the keyboard, so you have to access either those letters or the punctuation they displace (parentheses, @, #, colon, etc.) some other way. That ‘other way’ is AltGr + another key. AltGr is really just Ctrl+Right Alt—but on Windows Ctrl+Alt and Ctrl+Right Alt are usually treated the same, so any hotkey using Ctrl + Alt will almost certainly conflict with a national layout.
For example, on Hungarian, Slovak, and Croatian keyboards, AltGr + N produces a curly brace. Worst case, the hotkey wins and you can’t type those braces at all; in a slightly better scenario, "only" the hotkey itself stops working—for instance, the New Note shortcut (Ctrl + Alt + N) becomes unavailable on these keyboards. -
03 Jun, '25
Lucian System"Do not use Ctrl+Alt for hotkeys / keyboard shortcuts" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-05-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.