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For a long time I have been using Right Alt+U as a shortcut for starting an application in my OS. It's the one where you type the name of an app in the Start
menu, open Properties
and under Keyboard shortcut
you bind a key to it (e.g. http://imgsrv.worldstart.com/shutdown_keyboard_shortcut_2.jpg).
But recently it stopped working for no apparent reason (I haven't changed anything). Today I found out that when I press Right Alt+U in any text editor/field it produces a euro sign: €
. I don't know if it also did that before when my shortcut worked (i.e. launched my app).
My question is: how do I make my keyboard shortcut work again (i.e. start an app)?
When you check the shortcut value what does it show? – bentek – 2015-11-02T19:11:39.067
What keyboard layouts do you have installed and enabled? – Ramhound – 2015-11-02T19:27:14.617
The shortcut still shows
Ctrl+Alt+U
. I have Polish (Programmer's), same as before. – NPS – 2015-11-02T21:06:42.187What about trying CTRL + ALT + U instead ? – M. Abdelhafid – 2016-11-23T18:48:44.273
And I susspect you are using an English Keyboard Layout, Double check the keybord layout you are using – M. Abdelhafid – 2016-11-23T18:56:09.977
I'm using Polish (Programmer's) keyboard, is keyboard layout something else? How do I check that? As for Ctrl+Alt+U - € again, no shortcut working. – NPS – 2016-11-23T19:05:32.020
1Are you sure
Ctrl + Alt + U
is properly associated to a shortcut (and that shortcut is working)? For me, this key combination was typing a special letter but when I associated it with a shortcut then it stopped typing that special letter and started launching the program. – PrashantKumar96 – 2016-11-23T19:30:36.907Well, this is weird. Yes, the shortcut was properly assigned (it DID work, for a long time!). And then it suddenly stopped working. But now I tried removing the shortcut altogether and then assigning it again - and now it works. It's weird and I'd like to know what happened and why. – NPS – 2016-11-23T19:33:35.920
Was the shortcut working by double clicking on it? If yes, then maybe some update related to language settings might have caused it. Anyways, now that it is fixed, enjoy your hotkeys! – PrashantKumar96 – 2016-11-23T19:40:35.677
Oh, I meant keyboard shortcut, not a file linking to exe e.g. on my Desktop. And my OS had no recent update. Or any other significant change. – NPS – 2016-11-23T21:48:54.973
You asked this question an year ago. That's a very long time to commit 'no updates, no changes'. Anyways, I think we'll never be able to figure out the root cause of this problem so maybe ignore it and enjoy your hotkeys. – PrashantKumar96 – 2016-11-24T08:45:13.853
Have you tried selecting an other keyboard layout to see if
Alt Gr + U
still produces a€
– Klinghust – 2016-11-26T15:55:46.727No. But I'm afraid I can't now since resetting the keyboard shortcut made the problem go away. But if that happens again I'll try that. Although, I don't think my keyboard layout is the problem since it worked before (and now works again). – NPS – 2016-11-26T19:49:03.357