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How can I use the keyboard events up/down/right/left without starting an interaction with the navigation toolbar? (tried with GTK but I expect other backends behave the same) I connected to the keypress events and everything looks ok until I press the down key: my connected method gets called once and the navigation toolbar then gets the focus. From that point on it catches all of my arrow presses (also up, right and left). I noticed that using shifted keys could be a workaround but I really do not like it...

Thanks in advance for help!

cheers JF

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Sounds like a bug to me which should be reported on the github issue tracker: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/new

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