maya doesn't load my hotkey set at startup

[Anonymous]

everytime I start Maya it revert back to default hotkey set, I have to open hotkey settings and select my own set again, any help?

[macleanchr]

Yeah, they broke this.  Until they hotfix it in a few months, you can force this to load your hotkeys by adding a userSetup.mel text file to your ".../maya/2017/prefs/scripts/" folder (if you don't have one already. If you do, just add this to the bottom of the file).  Open that file in a text editor and add the following:

hotkeySet -e -current *whatever_you_named_your_hotkey_user_file*;

For example, mine is:

hotkeySet -e -current chris;

Oh Maya.

[Anonymous]

Thanks that worked for me

[Anonymous]

OBSERVATION:

In my case the name of the hotkey set file was "userHotkeys_Maya_Default_Duplicate" but I had to use the following code:

"hotkeySet -e -current Maya_Default_Duplicate;"

[mareknaprstek]

Thanks! It was driving me crazy. Just found the userSetup.mel in ".../maya/2017/scripts/" instead of ".../maya/2017/prefs/scripts/"

Cheers

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

just leave it here

[mehdiablo]

Making hotkeys more complicated to set... not a smart move autodesk

[_sebastian_f · Accepted solution]

@mehdiablo update your maya the bug is fixed for quite some time now. what @Anonymous  posted is actually a very nice new feature and was a workaround.

[Anonymous]

Here it is in python in case anyone is using a userSetup.py file.

from maya import cmds
cmds.hotkeySet("HOTKEY_SET_NAME", e=1, cu=1)

[Anonymous]

Yes! Thx

[Anonymous]

I am experiencing this in the latest version of Maya LT.

[conkerz]

The above script solution works.

Another solution is to link a hotkey set to a workspace as shown here:

https://youtu.be/k2oKSU2ww8s

[Anonymous]

Late to this thread but I was searching for solutions to this.  The way I've done this is to copy these files from a backed up copy of your prefs.  Worked for me today.

/maya/2018/prefs/hotkeys/

     userHotkeys_*.mel

/maya/2018/prefs/

     userNamedCommands.mel

     userRunTimeCommands.mel