In my work I often have to manually adjust letter spacing in text, and in the past you could always do this with ALT + , and ALT + . (corresponding to the < and > keys, but without needing to hold down SHIFT). I recently upgraded to Inkscape 1.2, and suddenly those keyboard shortcuts don't work anymore. When I try to use them, it just types a comma or period into the text box.

I see how to do it from the toolbar, but it's much easier for me to have the keyboard shortcut. I tried looking in the Preferences too, but the Keyboard Shortcuts preferences don't seem to list all keyboard shortcuts, and it's not clear how I would add one either.

This must be a bug, right?

Some keys were changed, but they should be completely configurable.

Tip here: https://inkscape.org/forums/tutorials/new-keyboard-shortcut-modifiers-menu/

In Linux Mint at least, ALT + keyboard arrows works perfectly in 1.2

In Linux Mint at least, ALT + keyboard arrows works perfectly in 1.2

ALT + keyboard arrows is for kerning (changing the space separately between any two letters), not letter spacing (changing the space between letters uniformly across the whole line). At least, that's how it is and has always been on my Windows versions.

TylerDurden

Some keys were changed, but they should be completely configurable.

Here's what the "Keyboard" panel of my preferences looks like, with the "Text" category expanded. As you can see, the desired keyboard shortcut isn't listed here. Many others are also missing, such as CTRL + arrows for manual kerning, CTRL + B to make text bold, etc. 

Am I missing something? 

You're fine... Inkscape is missing some things.  

Many operations are being updated and the commands are not exposed to users yet. (I'm digging around to find the current list of "actions" that can be mapped to keys, but haven't found it yet.) If the command for the action exists, it can probably be manually mapped (and should be available in future releases.)

I recommend filing a bug report so the key inputs you seek are not overlooked.

@Wingnutbob You're right, I misunderstood, sorry.

mrks9

You're right, I misunderstood, sorry.

No problem - thanks for listening!

TylerDurden

Many operations are being updated and the commands are not exposed to users yet. (I'm digging around to find the current list of "actions" that can be mapped to keys, but haven't found it yet.) If the command for the action exists, it can probably be manually mapped (and should be available in future releases.)

Do you mean that there's some way to map it other than through the Preferences dialog? Or we just have to wait for it to be added into there?

TylerDurden

I recommend filing a bug report so the key inputs you seek are not overlooked.

Okay, sounds good. I'll do that. Thanks for the recommendation!

Wingnutbob

Do you mean that there's some way to map it other than through the Preferences dialog? Or we just have to wait for it to be added into there?

There may be a configuration file that has more options than the ones shown in the GUI. 

TylerDurden

There may be a configuration file that has more options than the ones shown in the GUI.

I see. But you don't know where I might find that?