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Will the CTRL+L function come back?

For some reason this fucntion has disappeared. From what I can find it wasn't even intentionally, but I can't find any recent discussion on this and I really miss the option of seeing what my players can see. Literally every single session since this function has stopped working there has been confusion when my players were crawling a dungeon because I couldn't see what they had vision on or not.  I've read somewhere that this function was removed by accident while rewriting some code or whatever. In my opinion the ctrl+l funtion is absolutely crucial to running a game with dynamic lighting, because if you cant see what different tokens can see the game can't be run smoothly, and you might as well do everything by hand.  Does Roll20 have any intention on re-adding this function in some way?
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Finderski
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Sheet Author
Compendium Curator
Seems to work fine for me... Possibly dumb question, but are you selecting a token before pressing CTRL+L? If so, and it's still not working, then you may need to open a support ticket.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
If you are using Ctrol-L and seeing a black screen, here's a "why can't my players see anything?" checklist. The important thing is to verify . Don't assume. This list is written with GMs in mind, but can help players work through issues with their GM. The token is on the VTT It is assigned to the character The player has control over the character The token is on the Token/Object layer It is not blocked off by DL lines from seeing the immediate surroundings Make sure the player is looking at their token's immediate area. Shift-Click and hold on the token to pull the player's view to that area. If Fog of War is being used, that the area the token is in has been cleared The player has not been Split from the Party (Check the Help Center if this is unfamiliar) If Dynamic Lighting of any kind is being used: The token has sight turned on The token has a light source, or Nightvision (UDL) or personal light (LDL) In UDL it may be necessary to move the token one square to get everything working, or in extreme cases, refresh the (user's) page. Keep in mind that Ctrl-L is not and never was a tool to check the player vision experience. It was created to check line of sight, and will serve for a quick check. You should at least be able to see something similar to what Finderski posted
Yes yes, I checked all those things. I have been using it for about a year without problem, but suddenly it stopped working and the shortcut was removed from the list. So what's that about?
Okay so after i Saw the picture of ctrl+l working fine I did a check of all my browser settings and I found what was causing the problem right now. Ctrl+l has always been the shortcut for selecting the browser bar. That used to work fine in roll20, but a while ago it stopped working. You could no longer use the player sight function in roll20 because chrome selected the browser bar when you tried to use ctrl+l. In an attempt to override that problem i downloaded an extension that disabled shortcuts and made it so chrome would no longer listen to the ctrl+l shortcut. I assumed that would let me use the shortcut for roll20 instead of the browser, but apparently the extension doesn't block chrome shortcut functions, it blocks the whole shortcut. So I think roll20 just didnt get any input from my keyboard when I tried to use the player sight function.  I'm still curious why the shortcut stopped working properly in the first place and why it was removed from the shortcut list, but at least I can now use it again.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
What shortcut list are you looking at? I see it: