No highlight in the left panel when navigating with physical keyboard

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Steps to reproduce

Connect my Bluetooth keyboard and use the arrow keys to navigate the file tree in the left panel

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Yes I did.

Expected result

Visual feedback.

Actual result

There’s no highlight indicating which folder or file is selected in the left panel when navigating with the arrow keys. Sometimes there is a highlight but its arbitrary and doesn’t change when the selection does. Otherwise everything technically works (up & down to move, left & right to move in & out) but its really difficult to use with the selection invisible especially when there’s a lot of files.

Environment

I’m using GrapheneOS, but this probably shouldn’t be an issue.

This might point at a more major issue in terms of accessibility for people using keyboard based controls.

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It isn’t clear to me on which device exactly you are running Obsidian.
Also, we do not officially support GrapheneOS. Sorry.

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You didn’t say if you’re using some theme/plugin modifying the highlight. The solution might be as simple as to toggle css snippets/themes/plugins off

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I was using a Google Pixel 9a, OS built from Android version 16.

Also, I had my theme set to default and no CSS snippets. I also enabled lockdown mode (or whatever its called) to disable all plugins. No customisation was active as far as I could tell.

At the moment I have the mechanical Bluetooth keyboard I used for testing totally disassembled for modding, and I don’t have another compatible keyboard with arrow keys on hand. When its put back together I’ll try to reproduce on my old Android device and report back.

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Thanks