Qutebrowser: Typical OS X shortcuts not working in input fields

Created on 6 Oct 2017 · 1Comment · Source: qutebrowser/qutebrowser

On OS X there are several system wide keyboard shortcuts for navigating within all kinds of text input fields, such as textareas and single line input fields. Mac Keyboard Shortcuts lists them under the section 'Document Shortcuts'.

Most of them are currently not supported/honored by qutebrowser. While Option–Left Arrow and Option–Right Arrow are working (at least for me), especially all Cmd related shortcuts are not working, but also the typical emacs-like shortcuts like Ctrl-A or Ctrl-E are not working.

qutebrowser v0.11.0
Git commit: v0.11.0-1138-g9870936 (2017-10-05 23:33:00 +0200)
Backend: QtWebEngine (Chromium 56.0.2924.122)

CPython: 3.6.1
Qt: 5.9.1
PyQt: 5.9

sip: 4.19.3
colorama: 0.3.9
pypeg2: 2.15
jinja2: 2.9.6
pygments: 2.2.0
yaml: 3.12
cssutils: 1.0.2 $Id$
attr: 17.2.0
PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets: yes
PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets: no
pdf.js: no
sqlite: 3.16.2
QtNetwork SSL: Secure Transport, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Style: QMacStyle
Platform: Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit, 64bit
Frozen: True
Imported from /Applications/qutebrowser.app/Contents/MacOS/qutebrowser
Qt library executable path: /Applications/qutebrowser.app/Contents/MacOS/PyQt5/Qt/libexec, data path: /Applications/qutebrowser.app/Contents/MacOS/PyQt5/Qt
OS Version: 10.12.6, x86_64

That said: Thanks for this great software! It's a real lifesaver for me, now that FF & vimperator won't work for much longer!

Source

benjmin-r

Most helpful comment

It's a QtWebEngine bug, see QTBUG-54692. A fix is currently being reviewed, and will most likely land in Qt 5.10, so this will be fixed with some qutebrowser release in December (after 5.10 is released).