vscode: Pressing "ctrl+shift+e" records it as "ctrl+shift+unknown"

Issue Type: Bug

I have a keyboard shortcut of opening the Explorer set to ctrl+shift+e. This is currently not working and hence I tried to check the keyboard shortcut settings for the same. I tried to record the keys that I press and typed ctrl+shift+e and it resulted in ctrl+shift+unknown in the input tag.

VS Code version: Code 1.33.1 (51b0b28134d51361cf996d2f0a1c698247aeabd8, 2019-04-11T08:20:22.771Z) OS version: Linux x64 5.0.0-13-generic snap

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (8 x 1685)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled checker_imaging: disabled_off flash_3d: enabled flash_stage3d: enabled flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on native_gpu_memory_buffers: disabled_software rasterization: disabled_software surface_synchronization: enabled_on video_decode: unavailable_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	0, 1, 1
Memory (System)	7.63GB (0.68GB free)
Process Argv
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Extensions (24)

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(1 theme extensions excluded)

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 23 (4 by maintainers)

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To anyone who is experiencing this in Linux,

This is because ctrl + shift + E is assigned to emoji input.

TO disable that go to terminal & type

$ ibus-setup

window will open third tab will be emojis tab. change the shortcut key ctrl + shift + e to anything you like. then explorer shortcut key will perfectly.

+10

hardikdangar on May 10, 2019

Thanks in advance. I am using Ubuntu 19.04.

I cannot disable ibus-emoji. Change shortcut with other meaniningless shortcut via ibus-setup is helpful for other application but not helpful for vscode.

What shoud I do?

DevGim on Jul 22, 2019

I have the same issue and just found the followin post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52032340/ctrlshifte-inerts-special-characters-into-file-instead-of-showing-explore-pane

As i’m using openSUSE Leap 15 with GTK3 3.22. The only option for me is to remap keys.

giulianisanches on May 6, 2019

I don’t know what you mean? How is this not a VS code bug if it only happens in vs code? I don’t have any of the aforementioned emoji stuff installed. Just to be clear about what’s happening, when I press Ctrl+Shift+e the first time it works, but after that pressing ctrl+shift+e causes some symbols to be inserted to the open document instead. No other software on my machine behaves likes that, but if you know of something in my linux which is causes this then I can try and fix it. Thanks

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irthomasthomas on Oct 8, 2019

I still have this problem also with 1.37.1. It’s amazing that MS with all of it’s talent can’t fix such a small but vital problem. Really what is so hard? I thought MS loved Linux? Where is the love?! ; (

irthomasthomas on Aug 16, 2019

I found that this keybinding by default is for unicode input. And while editor is in focus it try to print unicode symbols. Just use another keybindings.

BartolomeyKant on Oct 25, 2019

Peek 2019-06-28 12-29 I’m using KDE neon and KDE doesn’t use ibus and as U see in gif, code is being run while disabling all extensions.

Qussayyon on Jun 28, 2019

Same here, also on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04). Running with --disable-extensions doesn’t resolve the issue.

Some keyboard shortcuts just seem broken currently, it’s the same for ctrl+shift+u.

Version: 1.33.1
Commit: 51b0b28134d51361cf996d2f0a1c698247aeabd8
Date: 2019-04-11T08:20:22.771Z
Electron: 3.1.6
Chrome: 66.0.3359.181
Node.js: 10.2.0
V8: 6.6.346.32
OS: Linux x64 4.15.0-47-generic

krepflap on Apr 28, 2019