Problem with keyboard shortcuts when using time display in player

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hello everybody,

i just registered because i have a problem with keyboard shortcuts (specifically I and O) on macos for quite some time.

i’m on macos v15.2, shotcut v24.01.31. the problem is reproducable. i add a video and afterwards when i click into the timeline of the player i can still use keyboard shortcuts “I” (trim clip in) and “O” (trim clip out). but when i click into the time and use up and down keys to finely change the time the kb-shortcuts “I” and “O” don’t work anymore. i work around it by going through the menue “Player” and click on it there, but its much slower. if i click into the timeline of the player again the kb-shortcuts “I” and “O” are working again. so it seems that the kb-shortcuts aren’t working when using the time display of the player with the arrow keys.

is this a bug or do i have to change a setting in shotcut to make it work?

thanks,
hotzenplotz

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When certain fields have focus they do not allow you to enter keyboard shortcuts without modifier keys such as Ctrl or Alt. Partly, because it is not a strictly numeric field. It needs to accept the time delimiters. All you need to do is move focus out of the field. You can press Tab or click the player.

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thanks to your answer i have a solution. using TAB and SHIFT+TAB to change focus and to get the focus back works, but there is a better solution. i made new secondary keyboard shortcuts for I (STRQ+I) and O (STRG+O) and now i can use them even if the focus is on the time display.

why does STRG+I and STRG+O work when the focus is on the time display and I and O doesn’t work with the focus on the time display?

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I already told you.