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"Mouseclick" is not recorded in Shortcuts
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11-12-2025, 11:18 PM
Gimp 3 on Win 11.

I would like to use a shortcut (living in my muscle-memory from Photoshop) 'Ctrl+left mouseclick' on the layer mask icon (giving me the selection of the mask). 
But when I try to input the combination - it is not recognized in the Configure Keyboard Shortcuts section.

At the same time I can have a mask shown with 'Alt+left mouseclick' on the layer mask icon. But this key-combination (though working) is not shown as a keyboard shortcut in the configure section ("Show Layer Masks" has the status "Disabled").

I guess 'Alt+left mouseclick' somehow was installed with the PhotoGimp plugin. I have searched for the plugin's key-definitions file to maybe be able to edit the short-cuts there. But I can't find it. And the right way would be to make these changes from the Configure Keyboard Shortcuts option. 

How can I get Gimp to accept and show the mouse actions in the configure section?
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11-13-2025, 08:32 PM
Very unlikely to work. Ctrl-left-click is the standard way to add/remove a single item to/from a selected set in list widgets, so in Gimp3 this adds/removes the layer from the set of selected layers.
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(11-13-2025, 08:32 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: Very unlikely to work. Ctrl-left-click is the standard way to add/remove a single item to/from a selected set in list widgets, so in Gimp3 this adds/removes the layer from the set of selected layers.

Yes, but the problem I hope for a solution to - is the missing recording of mouse-actions in Configure Keyboard Shortcuts?
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(5 hours ago)ESH Wrote:
(11-13-2025, 08:32 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: Very unlikely to work. Ctrl-left-click is the standard way to add/remove a single item to/from a selected set in list widgets, so in Gimp3 this adds/removes the layer from the set of selected layers.

Yes, but the problem I hope for a solution to - is the missing recording of mouse-actions in Configure Keyboard Shortcuts?

These work for me. But Control-left-click is so much used that even there it mya be captured before Gimp has a chance to see it. Dir you try other events (otjer mouse buttons, mousewheel...)?
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