Browser-laptop: Menu should not be activated with ALT key (Linux)

Created on 10 Nov 2016 · 15Comments · Source: brave/browser-laptop

Pressing Alt+Shift to change system language opens the browser Menu Bar.

It's not such an important issue but still is annoying!

Platform: Linux Debian 8 (jessie)
Brave Version:
Brave: 0.12.8
Electron: 1.4.23
libchromiumcontent: 53.0.2785.143
V8: 5.3.332.47
Node.js: 6.5.0
Update Channel: dev

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stefanos1019

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Notes for someone who wanted to grab this:

I solved this problem on Windows with https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/pull/5450

This would only be affecting distros which don't have the global system menu. The solution would likely be a modification of what was done in the PR

bsclifton on 11 Nov 2016

Brave 0.12.10 on Win 7 Enterprise SP1 x64. Cannot reproduce. Language change key is Alt+Shift and multiple languages present. Menu Bar is not opened contrary to @stefanos1019 's report.

Superbest on 1 Dec 2016

@Superbest It appears that this problem is Linux-only, and only on some Linux distros (as @bsclifton said above).

cndouglas on 1 Dec 2016

@Liunkae Ah, that explains it. Looks like I misread his comment, sorry.

Superbest on 1 Dec 2016

+1 from community user Alexey https://community.brave.com/t/shift-alt-behaviour/1247

srirambv on 21 Feb 2017

Windows should be good to go now after the following PRs:

Unless we implement a custom titlebar, the ALT processing may be picked up by the OS (before keypress handlers pick it up). Definitely need more info before this can be solved

bsclifton on 4 Mar 2017

Attrash-Islam on 26 Mar 2017

Is it possible to hide the menu bar permanently so that not even pressing ALT would show it?

ghost on 17 May 2017

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@zolk3ri that's a great idea- I just captured https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/8924 to track that

bsclifton on 18 May 2017

I have the same problem and it's confusing. Because I need to switch from English to Russian and this is very annoying. And I do something like that: holding SHIFT and press ALT, so this way menu will not open. But it is not so good... Hope you'll fix this problem.

waleev on 27 May 2017

+1 from community.

User on Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon 18.1 64bit

Name Version
Brave 0.16.13
rev 7869803
Muon 4.0.4
libchromiumcontent 59.0.3071.104
V8 5.9.211.35
Node.js 7.9.0
Update Channel dev
os.platform linux
os.release 4.4.0-81-generic
os.arch x64

eljuno on 29 Jun 2017

+1 from community

eljuno on 2 Jul 2017

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Still not fixed? The menu should be triggered by a single ALT key on release. Not by any ALT+??? key combination. It's really annoying for someone like me changing from the native to English language a lot.