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Shift key stops working properly, < becomes ;
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 8:59 pm
by slouch
I am hitting a secret combo of key strokes to change my keyboard inside TextPad. Less than and greater than symbols become semi-colons and colons, and the slash question mark key becomes hyphen and underscore. What am I doing to ruin my keyboard until I restart TextPad, and how can I turn off this feature once I have accidentally turned it on?
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 9:40 am
by Mike Olds
You really need to tell us the keystrokes.
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 2:00 pm
by slouch
Mike Olds wrote:You really need to tell us the keystrokes.
that's my question--how am I accidentally changing my keyboard settings and ruining my TextPad experience until I restart the program?
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 3:44 pm
by Mike Olds
slouch not cha gramma
What you really are asking is How does one change the keyboard settings' such that it might be done accidentally.
For us to know how you are accidentally changing the keyboard is beyond the scope of most of us. ... the vision thing, ya know?
Try looking for strange things in:
Configure > Preferences > Keyboard
Maybe 'reset all'.
And it still would help if you observed and remembered and posted the keystrokes you made before the onset of the problem.
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 9:51 pm
by MudGuard
sounds like the keyboard was switched from English to German layout ...
Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 7:16 am
by Jens Hollmann
I had the same problem (in the opposite direction). The standard "keystroke" is Alt-Shift. Yes just those without pressing any other key and then releasing them switches to another language layout.
If you don't really need this (and it seems you don't), you can delete the unwanted language layout in the system settings. There should be an entry "region and language" (or something like that). In there is a tab "language" and on this tab is a button "Detail...". That's translated from a german Windows XP so some imagination might be needed.
Easy to find :-)
Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 3:31 pm
by slouch
Jens Hollmann wrote:I had the same problem (in the opposite direction). The standard "keystroke" is Alt-Shift. Yes just those without pressing any other key and then releasing them switches to another language layout.
If you don't really need this (and it seems you don't), you can delete the unwanted language layout in the system settings. There should be an entry "region and language" (or something like that). In there is a tab "language" and on this tab is a button "Detail...". That's translated from a german Windows XP so some imagination might be needed.
Easy to find
you win. alt + shift is exactly what is happening. thanks, this was so frustrating to deal with.