CTRL-F12 does not work on new computer

[erafodo]

I have been using Total Commander for many years, and I have never had any problem. I have recently installed it on a new laptop, and the Ctrl-F12 key combination for custom file selection does not work. I can still choose the Custom functionality under Show, and then it works perfectly. I have checked the Ctrl and F12 keys in other applications, and they seem to work as they should (the keyboard hardware seems OK). As a workaround, is it possible to define another key combination to the Show custom functionality ? Thank you.

[Dalai]

It's a known issue that some programs register various hotkeys system-wide, Alt+F7 among them. Notoriously known for this are GeForce Experience and the Intel iGPU driver/software package, and I guess that AMD's GPU driver package also does this.

Check running software, including the driver software I mentioned, if any of them has this hotkey registered. There are programs which are able to show system-wide registered hotkeys, but they work rather poorly. NirSoft HotKeysList is able to show the registered hotkeys, but it doesn't show the program that registered it.

Regards
Dalai

[Horst.Epp]

You have definitely some tool running which assigns globaly Ctrl-F12.

To define onother key look in the configuration under Misc
and define a new hotkey for the command
cm_SrcUserDef

[Stefan2]

As already said, often Graphic card application (or other programs in some cases) have shortcuts set the user is not aware of.

See https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=351923#p351923






 

[petermad]

Also on some laptops, one has to enable the F-keys in the BIOS setup. - otherwise they act as multimedia keys

[erafodo]

You have definitely some tool running which assigns globaly Ctrl-F12.

To define onother key look in the configuration under Misc
and define a new hotkey for the command
cm_SrcUserDef

Many thanks for this suggestion, I really appreciate this. Could you elaborate a little bit more on this ?
What do you mean "configuration under Misc" ? I don't seem to find it...

Thanks !

[hi5]

See here https://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php?title=Options#Misc.
Tick ctrl and choose F12 in the pulldown menu, you can click the search icon and type to find the command

[erafodo]

It's a known issue that some programs register various hotkeys system-wide, Alt+F7 among them. Notoriously known for this are GeForce Experience and the Intel iGPU driver/software package, and I guess that AMD's GPU driver package also does this.

Check running software, including the driver software I mentioned, if any of them has this hotkey registered. There are programs which are able to show system-wide registered hotkeys, but they work rather poorly. NirSoft HotKeysList is able to show the registered hotkeys, but it doesn't show the program that registered it.

Regards
Dalai

Thank you very much ! I have installed the HotKeysList utility, and it indeed finds a large number of hot keys currently in use. But it seems that CTRL--F12 is not in this list. So the reason for why CTRL-F12 does not work is either something else, or maybe HotKeysList does not detect that CTRL-F12 is used (reserved), maybe by the BIOS (??). In any case, whatever the reason, I guess one workaround would be if I could define another hotkey combination to this functionality (which is one that I very often need). Regards /erafodo

[erafodo]

You have definitely some tool running which assigns globaly Ctrl-F12.

To define onother key look in the configuration under Misc
and define a new hotkey for the command
cm_SrcUserDef

Thank you so much, it works perfectly !! Maybe good to mention for those doing this for the first time (like myself) is that it is important to click on the little green tick mark beside the magnifying class (in the Misc menu window) after choosing the command, otherwise it seems that the actual hotkey assignment is not performed.

Regards,
/erafodo

[erafodo]

See here https://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php?title=Options#Misc.
Tick ctrl and choose F12 in the pulldown menu, you can click the search icon and type to find the command

Thank you very much ! Works perfectly !