Pressing zero on a keypad zooms in instead of writing "0".

felagund

Pressing KP_0 ("0" on keypad) sometimes (! - mainly on Google Docs and not always) zooms in (as if I pressed "+") instead (or in addition to) writing a zero. This is with NumLock on. Anyone else has seen this? On Vivaldi 3.0.

jumpsq

Stuff like this happens when both the browser and the website associate an action with pressing a key (I cannot my shortcuts to change tabs (1-4) any more on youtube since it will always jump to another part of the video).

I guess that google docs does not look like a text field to vivaldi in cases where this happens, so that vivaldi does what it think it's suppossed to do based on your settings, i.e. zooming when 0 is pressed. The only option that you have is to remove 0 from your shortcut list or disable single-key shortcuts (btw. I wonder why this does not happen with all the other numbers as well).

P.S. I'm not 100% that num pad requires single key shortcuts to be enabled in order to work, but I would assume so.

greybeard

Also happens here on the forum site with my laptop Number Pad,

HP Pavilion Laptop, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz
16GB RAM, 1TB HDD US/Canada keyboard with number pad

Vivaldi 3.0.1874.27 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision 15bd118304b9e45e4586759076775c7f5fd749c5
OS Windows 10 OS Version 1909 (Build 18363.778)

felagund

@jumpsq said in Pressing zero on a keypad zooms in instead of writing "0".:

Stuff like this happens when both the browser and the website associate an action with pressing a key (I cannot my shortcuts to change tabs (1-4) any more on youtube since it will always jump to another part of the video).

I guess that google docs does not look like a text field to vivaldi in cases where this happens, so that vivaldi does what it think it's suppossed to do based on your settings, i.e. zooming when 0 is pressed. The only option that you have is to remove 0 from your shortcut list or disable single-key shortcuts (btw. I wonder why this does not happen with all the other numbers as well).

P.S. I'm not 100% that num pad requires single key shortcuts to be enabled in order to work, but I would assume so.

Thanks, indeed, removing numpad keys from the shortcuts fixed thi. Though I think Vivaldi should know google docs is a text field - but I assume this is somethign so high level that they know about it (and I also can imagine that it might be quite compliacated - I have never understood why one must use ctrl+v for pasting but cannot use a context-menu item on that site).

I think it was happening with other numbers, I just picked 0 as an example.

BoneTone

@jumpsq said in Pressing zero on a keypad zooms in instead of writing "0".:

only option that you have

Nah, there's another option. Make use of the "Disable Keyboard Shortcuts" action. Assign whatever keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture you want to that action and then you can toggle your keyboard shortcuts on & off. It's specifically for sites like Google Docs that define their own keyboard shortcuts that conflict with the ones you have defined in Vivaldi.

jumpsq

@BoneTone Hadn't seen this before, thanks.
However, it still does not help if you do not want the website to grab focus, it only releases vivaldi. The other way would be more important for me. I really hate it when websites do not allow me to switch in between tabs.

// This may be off-topic, sorry. Not going to discuss the issue further here.

BoneTone

@jumpsq it should solve the OP's issue though, without having to completely remove shortcuts from any actions if they are used elsewhere.

For your YouTube issue, I'd recommend simply adding other keyboard shortcuts to the actions that don't conflict and are still easy for you to use. You can assign multiple shortcuts to any action; I'm not aware of an upper limit, but I've assigned at least half a dozen to one action before. You may find you like the new shortcuts more and end up using them more frequently.

I don't know what kind of keyboard you've got, but if keyboard shortcuts are an important tool in the way you work you might consider one with programmable macros, or modifiable firmware. That really opens the door to keyboard shortcuts and doing some rich & complex actions just by pressing 2 buttons. If you can define Hyper & Meh keys, it's like getting another 76+ easily typed shortcuts as Meta(Win)-Ctrl-Alt-Shift and Ctril-Alt-Shift shortcuts become just 2 key presses instead of 4 or 5.