# Menu Hotkeys Impede Typing Responses Using Turkish Alt-Q Keyboard Layout **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [August 4, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/menu-hotkeys-impede-typing-responses-using-turkish-alt-q-keyboard-layout/1813 "2020-08-04T03:29:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zatoichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3e96dc/32.png) [@zatoichi](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/zatoichi)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/menu-hotkeys-impede-typing-responses-using-turkish-alt-q-keyboard-layout/1813/1 "2020-08-04T03:29:13Z")
I’m running Anki on my Linux desktop, and I recently decided to try out typed responses for my English to Turkish flashcards. However, I have run into a problem that prevents me from typing my responses on English to Turkish flashcards. I use the Alt-Q Turkish keyboard layout to produce the various additions to the Latin alphabet that Turkish requires (ş, ç, ı, ü, ö, and â). To type these characters in the Alt-Q layout, I hold the right alt key and press the standard Latin variants of those characters (s, c, i, u, o, and a). However, when I try to do this while typing a response to an English to Turkish flashcard, Anki interprets some of those special characters as menu shortcuts. For instance, typing ralt+o to attempt to produce ö instead opens the deck options menu, while typing ralt+s to attempt to produce ş bumps me out to the screen showing how many cards I have to study for the active deck (with buttons for “Study Now,” “Options,” and “Custom Study”). This completely prevents me from typing my responses to Turkish flashcards. Is there a way to disable the corresponding shortcut keys while using the Turkish Alt-Q layout (or perhaps just entirely)? Thank you in advance for your assistance. ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/menu-hotkeys-impede-typing-responses-using-turkish-alt-q-keyboard-layout/1813/2 "2020-08-05T00:17:41Z")
Perhaps this will help: [https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1786482670](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1786482670) ---
**Author:** ![zatoichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3e96dc/32.png) [@zatoichi](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/zatoichi)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/menu-hotkeys-impede-typing-responses-using-turkish-alt-q-keyboard-layout/1813/3 "2020-08-05T01:05:28Z")
Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, this add-on did not resolve the issue with the Turkish Alt-Q layout. ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/menu-hotkeys-impede-typing-responses-using-turkish-alt-q-keyboard-layout/1813/4 "2020-08-05T01:07:47Z")
It may be a toolkit issue I’m afraid. ---
**Author:** ![zatoichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3e96dc/32.png) [@zatoichi](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/zatoichi)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/menu-hotkeys-impede-typing-responses-using-turkish-alt-q-keyboard-layout/1813/5 "2020-08-05T01:14:51Z")
Well I appreciate your suggestion all the same. Maybe one of these days I’ll do some more digging to try to understand the code of the add-on you suggested to see if I can’t tinker with it a little until it fits my issue, but in the meantime I have the workaround of doing my Turkish flashcards on Anki on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 5:37am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/menu-hotkeys-impede-typing-responses-using-turkish-alt-q-keyboard-layout/1813/6 "2023-05-01T05:37:40Z")
Closed on May 1, 2023, 5:37am UTC