electron: The "Zoom In" shortcut doesn't work

Output of node_modules/.bin/electron --version: 3.0.6, 4.0.0-beta.4
Operating System (Platform and Version): Mac at least
Output of node_modules/.bin/electron --version on last known working Electron version (if applicable): 2.0.11

Expected Behavior Behaviour in Electron 2:

“View > Zoom In” menu item shows “⌘+” as a shortcut.
Pressing “⌘+” increases a page’s zoom.

Actual behavior

For Electron 3 the app “View” menu shows “⌘+” as a shortcut for the “Zoom In” item. For Electron 4 it shows “⇧⌘+”.
The “⌘ and +” shortcut doesn’t work but “Shift and ⌘ and +” does the job in both Electron 3 and 4.

The other zoom shortcuts “⌘ and -” and “⌘ and 0” work as expected.

To Reproduce Open any webpage in Electron, e.g. $ ...Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron https://youtube.com, try to Zoom in and Zoom out with a keyboard. Can be reproduced even with the default app.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Reactions: 11
Comments: 20 (5 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

For now, I’m working around this issue with:

     { role: 'resetzoom' },
-    { role: 'zoomin' },
+    { role: 'zoomin', accelerator: 'CommandOrControl+=' },
     { role: 'zoomout' },

It restores the keyboard shortcut, which is used more frequently than the actual menu (for us, at least). The downside is it displays as ⌘= instead of ⌘+.

javan on Dec 31, 2018

As mentioned here by @cbesangeeth This works for me 👇 (Linux, Ubuntu)

Zoom In : Ctrl Shift + Zoom Out : Ctrl -

julian-alarcon on Sep 19, 2023

This is still a problem. Electron 13.1.3

have to use Ctrl Shift + to get it to work…

tr3ysmith on Jun 26, 2021

@codebytere I think it would be better to support both ⌘+ & ⌘= in MacOS and display ⌘+ in the menu… This will also support both US and variants keyboard

KiranNiranjan on Mar 25, 2020

Any update on this? I’m getting this error too. Directly clicking it through the menu will work though.

J-N-R on Apr 18, 2023

The Electron version reported on this issue is no longer supported. See our supported versions documentation.

If this is still reproducible on a supported version, please open a new issue with any other new information that a maintainer should know.

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Electron better! Your help is appreciated.

electron-triage on Mar 8, 2021

This was actually fixed as a byproduct of #27701! <kbd>Cmd</kbd> and <kbd>+</kbd> (no shift key) triggers the same code path it used to trigger before Electron v3, zooming in the window as you would expect. This also works as expected on other keyboard layouts, e.g. French.

@codebytere Now that <kbd>Cmd</kbd> and <kbd>+</kbd> (no shift key) works without touching shortcuts, what to do with the <kbd>Cmd</kbd> and <kbd>Shift</kbd> and <kbd>=</kbd> shortcut lying around somewhere?

clavin on Feb 19, 2021

Reproducible on v8.0.0 too. We are using the { role: 'zoomin', accelerator: 'CommandOrControl+=' } workaround.

bigshahan on Feb 23, 2020

I was trying to use that solution but I want it to display ⌘+. I tried duplicating the menu item and marking it as visible: false however that doesn’t work. Once the menu item is invisible it seems to be disabled even if I specifically enable it.

{ role: 'zoomin' },
{ 
    role: 'zoomin', 
    accelerator: 'CommandOrControl+=',
    visible: false,
    enabled: true,
},

aaronraimist on Feb 2, 2019

I allow myself to reopen this issue as #15502 only fixes the display and not the shortcut itself.

Related: #14742

alexstrat on Nov 14, 2018