Ctrl-W Fails Windows 11
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This is annoying and frustrating and completely mysterious.
I had to get a new machine (I wore out the keyboard). The new machine is on Windows 11; the old one, on Windows 10 with an identical lineup of extensions, did NOT have this problem. No other program on either machine has this problem.
Vivaldi (both 5.7 just installed and 5.6) won't recognize Ctrl-w (or Ctrl-F4) to close a tab. Nothing happens.
The extension lineup is pretty short: SaveWE, Hover, Pumpkin's Right-Click, Video Downloader Plus 2.2, Epub Reader, Unpaywall, ClearURLs. Same extensions, same versions, as on the other machine that did NOT have this problem.
So I be stumped. Ideas?
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@Jaws206 Please see Trouble-shooting issues.
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@Jaws206 Worth checking that those keyboard shortcuts are actually assigned to
Close tabinvivaldi://settings/keyboard/underTabs. Should be there by default, but something could have happened.You could also try clearing the set shortcuts and reassigning them if they are showing up as properly assigned.
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This was not even close to helpful.
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As noted in the body of the initial note, 1, 2, 5, 10, and 11 were explicitly ruled out before posting
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This IS a new profile and machine, satisfying 3 and 4
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6 and 7 are clearly not responsive, although my initial post could have been clearer that the problem occurs even when browsing on stored pages offline (and only in Vivaldi), even when those pages are self-created so I KNOW there's no tracker/ad/cookie activity
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8 was the very first thing done, and done repeatedly
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9 is not relevant (no hardware acceleration has been at issue, and if hardware acceleration is affecting this particular function, in Vivaldi only, there's a bug... in Vivaldi)
And as excrutiatingly specific confirmation of other troubleshooting, no other keyboard command/shortcut that I've tested appears to be malfunctioning in Vivaldi alone in Windows 11.
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I tried these already. Confirmed the key assignments immediately when I noted the misbehavior, in fact.
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OK, there is a bug, but not the one I expected... and it's in the keyboard settings.
As @nomadic suggested, I went in and reset the close-tab settings to be the same thing. No effect. On a whim, I then cycled the "use keyboard settings" checkbox (from checked/on to off, closed tab, reopened tab and renavigated, back to on, closed tab)... and now ctrl-w is working.
So, somehow, Vivaldi (a new install less than two weeks old, I transferred nothing from the old machine) didn't really have the "use keyboard shortcuts" status set to "on" even though the checkbox was checked. This may not be reproducible; it's theoretically possible that some other process may have glitched the install, however unlikely that seems on a brand-new machine with nothing running in the background. However, that should not have resulted in the visual flag being set but meaningless, so I'm at a loss.
So @Pesala , there is one thing that as an Ambassador you can check and confirm: On initial download, is that box supposed to be checked/keyboard shortcuts on, by default, in a Windows installation (was 5.6, now 5.7)? One would assume so, but assuming appears to be part of the problem here: I assumed that seeing it checked meant that the shortcuts would all work (and it was JUST the ctrl-w shortcut that was misbehaving — opening a new tab with ctrl-t worked just fine).
