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I set e on the desktop icon of Thunderbird as a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+e) to open it.
Now, when I edit a document (for example in LibreOffice) and I want to add the character "€" (which is the third character on the key e), instead of entering it, Windows 7 opens (respectively switches to) Thunderbird.
I tried entering "€" with Ctrl+Alt+e and with Alt Gr+e, bot no luck.
As soon as I remove or change the shortcut, I can type €
again.
Any chance to use e for shortcuts without losing the possibility to enter "€" in text fields?
OK, and Whats the Question ? – Ankit – 2012-09-29T15:55:12.567
@Lamb: Sorry, I thought it was obvious: Any chance to use "e" for shortcuts without losing the possibility to enter "€" in text fields? I'm no Windows user, but never stumbled upon this when I set shortcuts for friends on Windows XP. – unor – 2012-09-29T16:04:43.897
Are you using it through AutoHotKey?
– avirk – 2012-09-29T16:27:09.423If I understood the question correctly, you want to have same set of keys do Different task depending on the context ? – Ankit – 2012-09-29T16:37:02.043
@avirk: No, I use the Windows core default way: right-click on desktop shortcut, selecting "Properties" (don't know the actual translation), typing a character into the "Shortcut" field. – unor – 2012-09-30T00:24:55.997
@Lamb: Yes. When I'm in a text field, I should be able to enter any character. Windows should only use the shortcut, if I'm not entering text (which was the case in Windows XP, I guess). – unor – 2012-09-30T00:26:28.867
No exactly what you want, but we can have a setup which looks for active/existing windows and then perform the action accordingly. For ex.- If you are on Word or Notepad and press ctrl+alt+e it will type "€", otherwise it will launch Thunderbird. – Ankit – 2012-09-30T08:46:58.013
Ok if you are agree to tun a third party software to map the shortcut for you then we can try to solve out this problem. – avirk – 2012-09-30T17:05:45.743