The Delete key doesn't delete items in the Outliner

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Hi!

Suddenly, in UE 5.5.4 the Delete key stopped deleting items in the Outliner. It simply does nothing. I can right click the object in the Outliner, edit and delete successfully, so there’s nothing wrong with the deletion itself and the objects. The Delete key works well in the Editor itself, it just doesn’t work in the Outliner. I checked the keyboard shortcuts but didn’t see any reference to the Outliner.

Any hints please? I’m somewhat dumbfounded by this…

Btw, Ctrl+B also doesn’t work in the Outliner, but right click and browse to asset does. Ctrl+D also doesn’t duplicate, etc. It seems all Outliner shortcuts are gone…

Thanks!

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Hey there @Artur_R! Inside of the Editor Preferences, check for the delete key, is it bound for both Common Commands and Explorer?

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Thanks for your reply. It is indeed bound to those two.

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Does this issue apply for other projects or just this one?

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All projects, even ones I download from the marketplace. Could you please do me a big favor? Could you please export your key bindings from 5.5.4 so that I import them? I tried renaming the INI file with the key bindings so that UE recreated the file, and indeed the keys started working again. But then on the next restart they stopped working again. Very mysterious.

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I found out now that the Outliner needs to be docked to the Editor window for any keyboard shortcuts to work. This is surely a bug…

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Oh great find! You could report it as a bug, however I see why it occurs. “Focus” determines if inputs are captured by the appropriate application/process. With respect to this it makes sense why it happens like this.