Community-edition: App's menu opens when I change keyboard layout by Alt+Shift

[ngseer]

When I hit Alt+Shift to change my keyboard layout, app's menu opens so I can't type anything until I close it. It's really annoying.

Also I did some research and found that it seems to be a common problem for electron-based apps. The thing is when you have some high-level menu labels without underscored letters (these ones that allow you to activate this menu item by hittimg alt+underscored_letter), they will be activated when you hit Alt+Shift.
I don't know if it's a bug or just a feature but probable workaround is to edit app.asar file with modifying menu labels' definitions in this way: label: 'File' -> label: '&File'. This way it will add an 'underscore' to letter F and therefore prevent this menu item to be activated by hitting Alt+Shift. I fixed my Slack and GPMDP apps this way but when I tried to do it with the Ramble app I got it broken. Therefore it seems that I can't fix this by myself and send you a pull request so I hope you would look into it and make a fix.

Rambox 0.4.0
Electron 1.2.6
linux x64 4.6.4-1-ARCH

[romanlex]

Confirm!

[saenzramiro]

Ok, got it.

Let me take a look, I will consider your solution of this. :+1:

[Alexus230]

I found similar issue: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron/issues/50

And ... solution: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron/commit/5b684bbd4df4a583ac39a7f96a980da6feeabbe4

[infendory]

Issue still exists in v.0.4.5, though the corresponding commit seems to be already merged.

[Alexus230]

By the way, I found that:

• Unity - not affected by this bug
• KDE - affected

Probably, to avoid this issue we need to manually set & on any label. For example this menu entries doesn't have label::

• Quit
• Undo
• Redo
• ... etc.

[oueryemchi]

I am on Windows 10 pro..I have the latest Slack and I use Alt+Tab a lot to switch apps and I have the menu popping out every single time and it is driving me insane..any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks guys.

[Ash258]

@oueryemchi:

I have the latest

What does have "latest Slack" to do with Rambox? Or is "latest Slack" something else than latest desktop slack application?

[oueryemchi]

I am simply referring the Desktop Slack application..the issue relates to it when I switch it using Alt+Tab..does it make sense?

[Ash258]

Do you know that Slack Desktop application does not have nothing to do with Rambox? So its totally irrelevant. So we can't acces Slack Desktop application source code and change it's behaviour.

[oueryemchi]

My bad! This is the only thread I found to addresses the issue but I confused it.

[Ash258]

@oueryemchi If you want to report issue to slack use their twitter or even better their Help Center.

[oueryemchi]

Thanks!

[infendory]

@oueryemchi I reported this issue to slack support, and they resolved it in 3.2 alpha:
https://slack-files.com/T12KS1G65-FA2R46QJH-7dafaee6be

Two things to note are that our QA team is still testing this version and the package is unsigned.

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