EU4 keeps resetting shortcuts.txt when loading/starting save

[Stoned Jesus]

Hi!

So I am on Linux, Fedora 40 and I did not have any problems for tens of hours or more. Now recently I was playing a campaign and I noticed that my spacebar no longer paused the game. So I was like what's up with that? I found a fix to add this to shortcuts.txt.
speed_controls = {
"button_pause"="SPACE"
}
It worked for a bit. But now when I started loading my campaign or starting a new one, I noticed this entry disappears as soon as the save is loaded. This is so frustrating and I don't understand why it keeps happening. Like I mentioned I've probably played 20-30 hours fine with no problems... And the most mysterious part is that why is this not entry in my shortcuts.txt to begin with? It doesn't even appear when I reset the keybinds in-game and launch the save up again...

Mentioning this just in case, because of the replies I saw before: Yes my spacebar is actually working, not my OS issue.

Edit: Okay seems verifying intergrity of files seemed to fix this

 

[grotaclas]

Edit: Okay seems verifying intergrity of files seemed to fix this

Did it fix the spacebar or the rewriting of the shortcuts.txt? AFAIK eu4 saves the shortcut configuration which it is currently using to shortcuts.txt. But I don't think that this is what breaks the spacebar and adding the spacebar to the shortcuts doesn't really help either. There are some external factors on Linux which prevent eu4 from registering some shortcuts. It is somewhat random and that's why sometimes unrelated things seem to fix it.

 

[Stoned Jesus]

I am not sure if it did stop the rewriting of the shortcuts.txt but it worked fine that day. Came back to play again today and it has stopped working again... Verifying integrity of game files does not help anymore.

 

[Stoned Jesus]

I also get this in my error log:

[fixedwindow.cpp:2962]: interface/settings.gui: Missing Button 'autopause_countryview_button' in window 'menu_settings_GAME'.

 

[Stoned Jesus]

After a grueling hour, this is how I got it to work. Verified integrity of game files, disabled steam cloud and overlay and boom now it works. No shortcut needed.