Ubuntu 17.04 Switching view to 2 columns with alt+shift+2 not working

[dado_cokolado]

I have same problem, but on Windows. Nothing was helpful so far. How to fix this?

[addons_zz]

Run this command on your Sublime Text console and monitor how it respond to your keypresses:

sublime.log_input(True); sublime.log_commands(True);

Then, close/kill your other Windows applications and test whether Sublime Access the keys.

Alternatively, you can also run Sublime Text on Administrator mode, which should give him a greater level of exclusivity with your keyboard. You can read more about this on:

Sublime blocks media keys when in focus ... ! no support received!

You can force them to work even when running on administrator mode. This happens because all programs running on administration mode, have a "exclusivity" with the keyboard, i.e., no other program not also running on administrator mode can access the keyboard, while there is some program with focus running on administrator mode. Then, all programs running on administrator mode, compete between each other equally for the keyboard keys. Hence, you can keep running Sublime Text as administrator …

[Fifan31]

I have the same problem and find a working solution (at least for me).
I use a french layout keyboard actually and thus the key binding must be customized as follow:

        "keys": ["alt+shift+&"],
        "command": "set_layout",
        "args":
        {
            "cols": [0.0, 1.0],
            "rows": [0.0, 1.0],
            "cells": [[0, 0, 1, 1]]
        }
    },
    {
        "keys": ["alt+shift+é"],
        "command": "set_layout",
        "args":
        {
            "cols": [0.0, 0.5, 1.0],
            "rows": [0.0, 1.0],
            "cells": [[0, 0, 1, 1], [1, 0, 2, 1]]
        }
    },

Indeed, symbols ‘1’ and ‘&’ are on the same key (’&’ below and ‘1’ above) as well as ‘2’ and ‘é’
Note: I found it out thanks to

sublime.log_input(True);