alt+d wont Focus Address Field

As the title says, I can't get Alt+D to focus the address field. F6 works fine, but alt+d seems to just try to open up a menu (File, Edit, View, etc).

This problem has been on and off for a while, with the various releases. I'm just getting tired of searching for hours for a new solution to an old problem.

I have copied "Focus address field | Go to page" from F6, in the Application 'branch'.
I forgot. I edited "l ctrl" to "d alt", instead of creating a new shortcut.
And I have searched for "d alt" to make sure it isn't assigned to anything else.

Currently using 11.52 (build 1100) on Windows 7 Professional SP1.

Any ideas are welcome.

You're apparently using the menu bar instead of the menu button?

Opera will not override menu accelerator keys, so if Alt-D is already in use as a menu accelerator then you won't be able to use it as a shortcut. Let me see ... seems to me that D was used by the Feeds menu. Is that the menu you are seeing?

Strangely enough, on my system Feeds is actually using "S", but that may be a change they made in 12.00 Alpha.

If you really want to, you could edit the language setup file to force your version to use S as 12.00 is doing. With Opera closed, go to the directory you installed Opera in (usually C:\Program Files\Opera\). Find the folder named "locale", then the language you use (as in, "en" for English), in that folder you'll find a file named en.lng. Windows won't know what program to use to edit that file, but it is just a text file so something like Notepad will be fine. (Also ... I'm not sure, but in Vista and 7 you may need to request administrator access to edit the file.)

A search for Feeds will locate the following line:

1196468679="Feeds"

You can tell Opera which letter to use as a shortcut by putting an ampersand "&" in front of that letter. Of course F is used for File and E for Edit and you don't want to change those, so it looks like S is the only other letter available (unless you want to change the name completely), so you'd change the line above to read as follows:

1196468679="Feed&s"

Then just save the file. When you next run Opera, Alt-S will activate the Feeds menu and thus Alt-D will be available to focus the address field.

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

You're apparently using the menu bar instead of the menu button?

Opera will not override menu accelerator keys, so if Alt-D is already in use as a menu accelerator then you won't be able to use it as a shortcut. Let me see ... seems to me that D was used by the Feeds menu. Is that the menu you are seeing?

I do use the menu bar, but I don't have a feeds "top level" menu in 11.52.
And I'm not seeing any menu's at all when I try to use Alt+D.
I see the highlighting of the shortcuts (File, Edit, View and so on), but there isn't a D, so I just see the highlight until I press D, then the highlight goes away.
(unless I release the keys quickly, then I get the idle highlight of the File area on the menu. As if I had just tapped the alt key and nothing else.)

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

Strangely enough, on my system Feeds is actually using "S", but that may be a change they made in 12.00 Alpha.

It looks to me like feeds are completely new (i.e. not in the stable releases).

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

If you really want to, you could edit the language setup file to force your version to use S as 12.00 is doing. With Opera closed, go to the directory you installed Opera in (usually C:\Program Files\Opera\). Find the folder named "locale", then the language you use (as in, "en" for English), in that folder you'll find a file named en.lng. Windows won't know what program to use to edit that file, but it is just a text file so something like Notepad will be fine. (Also ... I'm not sure, but in Vista and 7 you may need to request administrator access to edit the file.)

A search for Feeds will locate the following line:

1196468679="Feeds"

You can tell Opera which letter to use as a shortcut by putting an ampersand "&" in front of that letter. Of course F is used for File and E for Edit and you don't want to change those, so it looks like S is the only other letter available (unless you want to change the name completely), so you'd change the line above to read as follows:

1196468679="Feed&s"

Then just save the file. When you next run Opera, Alt-S will activate the Feeds menu and thus Alt-D will be available to focus the address field.

There's nothing containing "feed" in my da.lng. I made sure I wasn't searching case sensitive.
I do know how ampersand works with menu shortcuts though, from experience with application development.

Alt+D here highlights the address on the address bar.

Feeds is optional, if you've never subscribed to a newsfeed you won't see the menu. Likewise there are optional Mail and Chat menus ...

No other suggestions on how to get certain/all/whatever to call this, shortcuts working?