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M-f not working on linux #44

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kaiaw opened this issue Feb 8, 2017 · 9 comments
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M-f not working on linux #44

kaiaw opened this issue Feb 8, 2017 · 9 comments

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@kaiaw
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kaiaw commented Feb 8, 2017

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@liadbiz
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liadbiz commented Feb 13, 2017

same here!

@torsod
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torsod commented Mar 2, 2017

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and opens the file menu. opens the view menu. I have tried to override the alt key without luck.
and other combinations work fine.
I have no problems at all when using VS Code on the Mac.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Apologies if this is the wrong place for posting this.
Thanks

@torsod
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torsod commented Mar 2, 2017

Sorry, that did not come out correctly. Meant to write:
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and "alt-f" opens the file menu. "alt-v" opens the view menu. I have tried to override the alt key without luck.
"alt-b" and other combinations work fine.
I have no problems at all when using VS Code on the Mac.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Apologies if this is the wrong place for posting this.
Thanks

@FreddieOliveira
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Unfortunatly this is an old known bug in Ubuntu without workaround since version 15.04+
This is the bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1113420 If you have the same problem mark you as an affected user too, so hopefully someone will fix it before we give up using Ubuntu.

@torsod
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torsod commented Jun 2, 2017 via email

@FreddieOliveira
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Actually this is an in-application setup, that means that the application itself can override the Ubuntu's default top bar response to the Alt key. In emacs as well as in gnome-terminal, for example, we have the option to disable the Alt shortcut to access the top bar in its preferences menu (as shown in the second checkbox in the image). But Visual Studio Code doesn't have this option in its configurations. An alternative would be to disable this annoying behaviour in the Operating System configuration, but it happens to not have this option either. So, what is left to us is to wait untill one of them implements it, or implement it ourselves and make a push request, since, unfortunately, it seems not to be none of them priority.
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@FreddieOliveira
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Great news!! Visual Studio Code v.1.13.1 just added a new setting called window.enableMenuBarMnemonics that when setted to false disables the Alt top bar shortcut letting the emacs shortcuts work like a charm :)

@torsod
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torsod commented Jun 28, 2017 via email

@FreddieOliveira
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Unfortunately this project seems to have been abandoned. Checkout
https://github.com/SebastianZaha/vscode-emacs-friendly
It's a fork of this in active development and with many improvements. It's available from vscode as 'vscode-emacs-friendly'

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