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I just discovered the root of my issue, and I hope it's helpful to you.
The problem: I am working in Maya. The hotbox menu and everything works fine (i.e. move, scale, rotates hotkeys), but then I go into my outliner and try to rearrange objects and clean-up, but the mouse cursor turns into a "no" icon and I can't move anything. For some reason, this disables the keyboard entirely!
The solution: Right-click in the outliner and go to SortOrder -> SceneHierarchy. This will allow you to sort objects within your outliner. You will need to move something within the outliner (or restart maya) to get back your hotkeys.
Hope this helps because the problem almost gave me an aneurysm!
Reading the thread, because I was having same issues with non-functioning keyboard with Maya 2013 for Mac. I found the answer above-- thank you!
Whenever i was going into Outliner and trying to re-parent I was getting the NO icon-- and this, apparently, was what kept messing up the keyboard functions globally.
The solution to the outliner problem ALSO FIXES THE KEYBOARD PROBLEM: Go into the outliner's display/sort order menu and change from alphabetical to scene hierarchy. That allows you to grab items with the mm button. It also restores the hotkey and scrolling capabilities of the mouse and keytboard everywhere.
(At least so far as I've found...)
The problem also exists in Max 2013.
It just started happening this week, but for some reason if you have the container explorer open and you turn on "select children" the keyboard stops working. I figured out that if you select an object in the explorer and make it a child of something else then the keyboard might start working again. However sometimes a restart is still required.
Very annoying bug.
Here is the definitive Solution go to maya Preferences > Display > Manipulators there change the default manipulator to translate or something and maby check or change some parameters then after saving the new Prefs it will let you use you hotkeys again!
Hey there, I found myself having the same kind of intermittent dysfunction with hotkeys in Maya (2018.1 in my case).
I also started to notice similar happenings in Photoshop so, I did some experimentation starting with my main input device.. my keyboard. I then quickly found a solid fix for my situation.
The solution for me was to update the keyboard's software (a Razer Lycosa) and to disable the quick customization interface hotkey, which is found in a drop-down menu in the lower left of the 'Razer Synapse' interface.
In my case, updating my keyboards software and more importantly, disabling its hotkey that brings up the customization interface has thus far been a permanent fix to all my hotkey issues in Maya and Photoshop. After a bit of research, I am finding that most high-end keyboards that make use of a customizable interface often use a special function key or alt+(number or letter) in order to bring up the quick access interface. I'm not a developer nor do I play one on TV but, I think this hotkey issue people are having in Maya might just be Maya running into conflict with 3rd party keyboard and mouse software that is either not up to date or is competing with commonly used hotkeys to launch their software.
I see many are finding that toggling the 'Sort Order' within the Outliners 'Display' properties from Alphabetical to Scene Hierarchy or vice versa does the trick for them though from what I have read in various forums I wonder if this is not just a temporary fix. I say that because I tried this trick first and it seemed to work for a while, then I started having issues again. It was not until I noticed similar problems in Photoshop that I started looking for other avenues of attack outside of Maya.
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