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Getting SublimeText back to respecting my system wide hotkeys

#1

Since a few days or maybe a week, SublimeText does not respect my system-wide hotkeys on Linux anymore. Specifically, I use the context menu button to display a Guake Terminal. This has worked perfectly until now. When I press the context menu key, SublimeText will display a context menu. All other applicatons on my system still respect my hotkey, so I figure the cause of the problem lies in a recent change in SublimeText.

I have tried different options to change the key binding for the menu key, using Preferences -> Keybindings. eg:
{ "keys": ["context_menu"], "command": "noop" },
{ "keys": ["context_menu"], "command": "unbound" },
{ "keys": ["context_menu"] },
But to no avail. In case of the first 2 attempts, it will do nothing when I press the menu key. So my setting definitely has an effect, albeit not the desired one.

I found a few posts on this topic, eg: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19245837/how-to-unbind-a-key-binding-in-sublime-text-2/37060993#37060993 and: Sublime Text 3 overriding crucial keys in my keyboard layout but noine of the advice worked for me. These posts were pretty old already, so they might not work anymore. I tried the package PackageResourceViewer, but couldn’t find the package to edit.

Does anyone know a solution?

SublimeText build: 4142.
Installed using snap.
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS + gnome 42.5
kernel: 5.15.0-53-generic

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#2

Have you tried safe mode?

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#3

I didn’t know about safe mode. Tried it, it makes no difference.

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#4

In recent builds of ST a keybinding with "command": "" will ignore the key and pass it back to the OS.

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#5

Thanks for the help.

What is a ‘recent’ build? I have 4143 and tried this:

   [
	{ "keys": ["context_menu"], "command": "" }
   ]

The context menu doesn’t appear, but also the keypress doesn’t end up in my OS.

I can assign other commands to the context_menu key and they work as expected. An empty string however, does not have the desired effect.

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#6

It’s working fine on my end. Perhaps this is an issue with snap? (Note we don’t officially distribute using snap)

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#7

Maybe check permissions of Sublime Text by looking in Ubuntu Software.
Just a guess. Ubuntu is now 22.04.2 if all updates in place.
The kernel is now 5.19. Maybe update Ubuntu. The latest snap Sublime Text version is 4143. Maybe sudo snap refresh.

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