Ctrl + arrow shortcut doesn't work

Glyphs
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Adjusting the left side bearing of a letter using the ctrl + arrow shortcut in Glyphs does not work for me. I’ve asked a friend for whom it worked so it must be something on my end, but I’m unable to figure out what could cause the issue.

I have checked under Keyboard in system preferences and ctrl is not assigned to anything other than the default. It works like normal.

Any tips/tricks? The manual says “You can set your own shortcuts in the OS X System Preferences, under Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts > Glyphs.” but I’m not sure how to get that to work.

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For the shortcut not working, does Cmd-Shift-arrow keys work?

For shortcuts in Glyphs 2 you’d enter the name of the menu, as in this article:

for submenus, insert “->”, as in
View->Zoom->Zoom to Actual Size

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The Ctrl+arrows is used to Spaces shortcuts. Disable it, or set it to something else.

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I had totally missed that. Thank you once again!

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Is there a way to set a different shortcut for LSB (single steps: ctrl+leftArrow) and RSB in Glyphs, instead?

I don’t want to disable or re-assign the system’s “Move … a space”, as this is still needed by my programmable mouse (Logitech MX3). It recently took me ages to debug the mouse failing to do it’s job, just to realize that I had disabled these settings some time ago.

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I rather not change that. The code is complicated enough.

What shortcut would you use instead? Can’t you change the Spaces shortcut instead of disabling it?

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Not change, just make it accessible in the shortcuts preferences maybe?

If I change the system shortcut, I need to change it in the mouse settings to custom shortcuts as well for all occurances. It’s quite a cadence-rat-tail-can-of-worms to open. But probably I need to do that then.

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The spacing/kerning keyboard commands are not individual shortcuts but are handled in the keyDown: method. I would need to add a action method for each combination … And again, what keys would you use?