Keyboard shortcuts not working reliably (2.10.10, 2.10.6)
I recently got a new PC (oh joy, reinstalling all my softwares again) and had to reinstall GIMP. My storage HDD died so idk even what Version I used to use, although I KNOW it was 2.something, I grabbed it in 2015-16? But I am now running 2.10.10 (bug also present in 2.10.6, tried it as well) and "something" has changed. (since it's not my code I am unable to say exactly what, just that someone, somewhere, has (imho) made a VERY poor decision) When I start a new file or open an existing one (starting the Gimp.exe process) I am unable to use keyboard shorcuts. Clicking in the image sometimes seems to enable them, as does selecting any transform tool using the menu, but this is temporary, they turn off again with no warning or logic I can figure out. I has the menurc files as other posts here have suggested I need, they seem to be setup as I like (I just use the defaults) PLUS they actually DO, (sometimes!!) work.
I am literally beating my head off the wall for a workaround for this, it drives me INSANE to break my workflow with gd menus (I are getting older, turn 40 next week, and mine eyes take a LONG time to refocus on text labels anymore, so I'm wasting 5-10, mebbe upto 30 seconds, not too bad, but 20000 times a session is driving me nuts), and takes me 5-10X longer to do anything (used to take me 10 mins to produce VERY basic "testing" textures+normals for a 3d model. It's now over 45 mins, and IT IS NO GD FUN anymore.
PLEASE HELP!!!
Win 7 x64 SP1 on a 128gb Samsung SSD Intel i7 4760 (no OC) 12gb ddr3 @1333 ~4.5TB spread over 6-7 other HDD's but they don't really matter, removing them from the mix or adding them don't change GIMP's behaviour