Hey!
I am experiencing a weird issue where my escape key dose not appear to work in quite a few instances. When I am using any application in a qube, the escape key dose not appear to register. For example, when in Firefox, if I am tying in any text box I would expect esc to exit the text box but instead I don’t see anything happen. This also happens when I am in vim, either qube or Dom0, if I am trying to exit edit mode the esc key dose nothing.
One thing that I have tried, while in Dom0, I ran showkey which dose register the key when pressed. Where it dose work though, is in the xfce UI (Dom0 applications not qube applications). If I have a drop down open I can tap esacpe to exit it.
My system:
- Thinkpad T480 running Heads Bios
- QubesOS 4.3
- I have a UK keyboard and that is set in the OS
During writing this, I found this: XFCE Forum
While it didn’t fix my problem it gave me an idea.
FIX:
Go into keyboard settings in XFCE (dom0) → Application shortcuts. Then you want to add a random shortcut, the command can be something random that will fail. They key is to set the escape key as the shortcut. It should pop up with a warning that you are overriding another shortcut, the shortcut you are overriding is popup_menu_toggle (or something like that). When you have added the shortcut you want to remove it again, this clears the shortcut breaking things.
There is probably a better way to remove this shortcut breaking things but I couldn’t find it. If someone has a simpler way of doing this, please do up it in the comments as this isn’t the clearest fix.
Thanks!