Update: For some reason, custom hotkeys are periodically resetting whenever I change other settings, or change learning language on LingQ.
The hotkeys tab also vanishes after using it once, and when the page is refreshed, the hotkey bindings are reset again.
Thanks for the report, I’ll have a look
Edit: There is a problem with new patch 1.23, please use 1.22 Until i release the new patch
2nd Edit: Patch 1.24 is now live with the bug fix
3rd edit: Patch 1.25 is now live, which properly relimits the scope to reader page. (No more bugging out editor page)
ROOSTER HOTKEYS PATCH 1.26
→ New bind to remove colors / underlines from LingQs.
→ Extra bind to remove colors / underlines from LingQs and make them bold instead.
→ Now opens in Fullscreen @jpp025
Hey @roosterburton,
With my smaller screen (13-inch) and no scrolling ability with the Hotkeys menu, I can’t really use it properly. Can we get a scroll going or resizing (from any point on the popup) going for this one?
Example:
Note: It’s pretty much just stuck like this.
Thanks!
P.S. The progression bar for the reader just stays on top of it, too, for some reason.
I’m going to make a premium version with a proper menu and tabs etc!
And that sizing thing should be fixed. can scroll on the page now
Perfect! Thank you!!
General Best Practices:
Note: Below are just working lists that I came up with through trial and error. Still investigating when I can/have time!
Quick Reference Trouble Shooting When a Key Shortcut Isn’t Working:
Trouble Shooting Path 1:
Trouble Shooting Path 2:
Trouble Shooting Path 3:
Note: It appears to be somewhat random (at least to me currently) when this 3rd method/troubleshooting path kicks in and works, so you may have to skip around and do any number of these combinations to get the shortcut to work—in the case I have detailed below. This is just what seems to be working for me. @roosterburton may come up with a fix/LingQ may figure their shortcuts out, but I just wanted to include this in case it helped anyone else! 
P.S. Trying a different key combination for shortcuts that are finicky might help, too.
Part of Original Post (not troubleshooting guide):
Edit 5: See this reply for the next update.
Edit 4: See this reply for an update.
Edit 2: Note: I noticed the next page shortcut default for LingQ: [hold down] Shift + right arrow worked once I uninstalled the Rooster HotKeys extension, but when I reinstalled it, and tried to do the same default shortcut it stopped working.
Edit: Yeah, seems like the LingQ Keyboard shortcuts are flaky in general, so there’s not much to be done until LingQ figures this out, so I’ll uninstall for now and try to mess around with LingQ’s shortcuts and report them to their support team, and revisit this extension. (Looks great overall! Once it can work for me, I would love to reset a few—handful—bindings I would use. Note: If you don’t struggle with LingQ’s shortcut keys issues, this won’t apply to you.)
I’m not sure why it’s not working for me, but not even the original shortcut from the LingQs side works for me when it comes to moving to the next page. Are LingQs bindings (and maybe even these bindings) more friendly to non-mac users?
I tried setting the next page hotkey to the command (a.k.a. “meta” ?) + arrow right (
), but it’s just doing the move to the next LingQ thing for me.
Additionally, in this case, the arrow right (by itself) also moves me to the next LingQ (which is what I want it to do anyway, but not on the command/“meta” + arrow right shortcut).
So it’s like it doesn’t even register that I’m pressing command/“meta” at all.
Edit: I can right/ left ( /
) arrow in either direction until it moves onto the next page—not very practical—though.
Anyone with a MacOS experience this? (either on LingQ—without the Rooster Extension—or with the Rooster extension)?
Also, the default keybinding for Translating (Shift + T) triggers my Firefox browser to open up a new tab, so it’s extra weird.
Any thoughts @roosterburton? (I understand this may be out of your scope here, just wondering.)
Not sure about this @jpp025. I just rebound that key to Ctrl+v and it worked well.
Try press Reset binds before making any changes.
Not sure about this either. I obviously haven’t tested the Meta key but the code looks right.
Shift+T is just the translate sentence toggle, you need to be in sentence view for it to work. There is a different bind to trigger the lesson translation.
Not sure why it triggers new tab either. I would need a MAC to properly investigate.
Do any of the keys work? Is it just these keys that are broken for MAC?
Updated to 1.26 and everything is working great over here, using these custom binds every day and it’s making such a difference. Thanks again for all the work on this @roosterburton!
Great idea.
Please consider
-a key to show showing statistics
-always showing wordsread today
-a macro to go to the next sentence, show the translation and play the audio. Possibly mulipleorders. Possibly with a delay.
Great idea, I’ll add this in the next patch.
I’ll have a look at how the data is created for this and get back to you
I’ll allow easy custom setup of automated keybinds in the premium version
Additional Edit:
Re-binded to “Shift + >” and seems to work more reliably than " Shift + " I’ll try it out for a bit and see. (I did a re-bind on the audio shortcuts that had that code for now 5 for 5 sec backward and 6 for 5 seconds forward and that worked. I tried the Shift + combo first and that didn’t work, so I went for the numbers instead.)
I’m still re-testing everything, but the short of it seems like just the " b " for “Next Blue LingQ” isn’t working, once I manually click on the next blue lingq the other LingQ actions appear to work.
Resetting the binds and uninstalling and reinstalling seemed to work(?) When I reinstalled Rooster Hotkeys to start testing all the shortcuts, the Shift + [arrow right/left] are working for me!!!
I get serious memory leaks on Chrome if I leave LingQ open a while. That’s why I use Firefox.
ROOSTER HOTKEYS PATCH 1.27
→ Basic Tab system added
Great to hear! It would be cool to know what keybinding configurations people came up with. Its a complicated problem now with duplicates and lots of unbound keys
Not sure why, but after changing the hotkeys once, whenever I revisit LingQ, the keys are reset and the tab dissappears.
Nothing seems to work except uninstalling and reinstalling the extension, resetting keys and changing them again, each time this happens.
Edit: Actually the extension just isn’t appearing at all now, I enabled permissions but still nothing. Not sure what’s interfering in this case.
Edit2: Seems some other web extensions like ‘leechblocker’ and adblocker aren’t compatible.
The problem might be related to LingQs page navigation. They use a special navigation which doesn’t properly detect URL changes. You can try refresh the page when you are on the reader page it should show up
How could I use this fantastic ability on android phone?
I’m not sure, does an android phone have a keyboard? Or do you mean for other extensions?
Some of these extensions are coming to Firefox for Android later this year
Update 2: Legit resetting the binds, toggling the extension off and on again, and refreshing the page* often makes the shortcuts work again, this more likely a LingQ website/coding issue in my mind—not the Rooster Hotkeys extension.
P.S. I did the above again today and the go-to-next blue LingQ shortcut randomly worked again.
*I do this when the LingQ tab may have been open on a tab/idle too long.
P.P.S. Thanks for taking the time to reply @sarjag! It helped!!
The questions that keep me up at night. Why does this work on Chrome but die on Firefox and vice versa…?
hopefully we can find a solution where you don’t need to do that everytime!
This page gives lifetime total words read. If you can pick up the first number, round it and show it, it would be useful.
https://www.lingq.com/api/languages/fr/stats/
{“Words of Reading”:81313.5551332149,“Hours of Listening”:1.10860720867366,“Known Words”:4979.0,“Hours of Speaking”:0,“Words of Writing”:0,“LingQs”:1802.0}
