Hello!

I've searched for similiar threads and read them, but couldn't really find what I was looking for.

I've got a problem in both LFS aswell as "rTractor", as the community here says.

That problem occurs when I try to press a button for text messaging in-game(Press t LFS, the quick chat in rF).

Somehow, I messed up today in LFS and probably made some kind of button-shortcut and activated or de-activated something.

Examples:

When I press button z to write a z, I get a y. Same happens when pressing y, I get a z in the text message!

And it's not just that, for example, when I try to write a "!", I also get a different letter or sign! It's like the keyboard commands have swapped places for some buttons!

Buttons like a, b and c are not affected by this.

Same in rFactor(Just an example, not that we're in a rF forum):
When I type the command for "!", I get: é.

Anyone did this mistake once too by accident? Is there a way to "reset" this to normal?

My laptop keyboard works normally on forums and etc, it's just in LFS text message and in the quick chat of rF that things get messy like this.

(If someone also plays rF and can tell what went wrong, I'd appreciate it really, since I have to deal with the rF problem now for some time).

It seems like you just swapped between an English and Swiss keyboard layout. The language abbreviation should appear in your taskbar. Otherwise, see the control panel and something like Locale & Language - Keyboard and languages.

Edit: Oh yes, I forgot about the Alt+Shift shortcut ^^

Try pressing ALT+Shift for changing it back.

Quote from Flame CZE :

It seems like you just swapped between an English and Swiss keyboard layout. The language abbreviation should appear in your taskbar. Otherwise, see the control panel and something like Locale & Language - Keyboard and languages.

Edit: Oh yes, I forgot about the Alt+Shift shortcut ^^

Win7 shows me it's still German. I right clicked and looked for the keyboard, and it looks like it's normal too.

Quote from Stefani24 :

Try pressing ALT+Shift for changing it back.

So, I pressed in both games ALT+Shift at the same time by accident and I have to press them again in-game to reset my mistake?

I hate shortcuts via button because if you touch some by accident, you can mess up some things

It does not matter where you press the shortcut, it chages the keyboard layout in the whole system. You can disable it in control panel, though.

Quote from Flame CZE :

It does not matter where you press the shortcut, it changes the keyboard layout in the whole system. You can disable it in control panel, though.

Ah yes, I can see it changing language when pressing the buttons.

And that works for both games?

Since the control panel never seemed to have changed the language, but the games failed to understand and the buttons swapped places with each other.

But I believe that was the problem. I laughed when writting something with a capital, and maybe I slipped onto ctrl too and pressed both at the same time.

I am awesome at failing.

Thanks you guys for the help, I'll come back to you when I looked into both games and can say that both work normally again

EDIT: It's probably good if I disable it. Stupid shortcuts!

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I know Fordy, I know.

Just wanted to say thanks, it's back to normal

Strange it didn't work for rF, still getting "é" instead of "!" as example, but that's a different game anyway...