Keyboard use with plugins

[finotti (Luis Finotti)]

Using Zyn Fusion synth (in Linux), when I try to search for a preset, the keys pressed ins the search bar are passed to Ardour, which interprets them as keyboard shortcuts. (Therefore I cannot use the search…) Is there a way to avoid that (maybe temporarily)?

I can see how this can be ambiguous, as it’s nice to be able to press the space bar (or L) with a plugin open and have Ardour start playing. But it would be nice to be able to search.

[paul (Paul Davis)]

In the upper right of the plugin editor/GUI is a small keyboard icon. If enabled (click on it). all key press and release events should be sent to the plugin.

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

Text input in Zyn-fusion not working

My bad I was using the vst plugin by mistake (for some reason I after installing zyn-fusion, ardour didn’t show the vst or lv2 extensions in the two names, so I clicked the last one thinking it might have been lv2, now it shows after I went back to check), text input works with the lv2 plugin with and without keyboard-entry thanks for the help

[finotti (Luis Finotti)]

Thanks, Paul and Robin for the replies!

And I’m sorry for missing the already asked question… I did search, but I guess not well enough.

It’s weird because I am using the LV2 plugin. I double checked after I read Robin’s message. But now it is not happening anymore… But now I know about the keyboard icon.

Again, thanks for the help!