Reputation: 3683
On windows 10 running VSCode, how do I open the Command Palette with keyboard shortcuts? Under the view menu, it says the shortcut is ctrl+shift+P
but doing that does not open the Command Palette?
Upvotes: 28
Views: 38248
Reputation: 41
In my case, that the program "ticktick", using the short cut of "ctrl+shift+p" to strat a clock, So I can not use it on vscode.
You can try disable the "ticktick" shortcut.
Upvotes: 4
Reputation: 3315
For me it was Lenovo Nerve Center in my Lenovo Legion laptop. By default keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + P
is used for "Prevent Mistaken Input". After disabling this feature, everything worked in VS Code.
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 141
For me, it was bound to the timer setting in Razer Cortex. turned timer off function off and was fine.
Upvotes: 8
Reputation: 439
For me, it was bound to Intel Graphics Command Center, which came pre-installed in my Lenovo laptop.
The fastest way I narrowed down this issue was by opening Windows Task Manager, killing non-vital services one by one, then testing the shortcut in VS Code again.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 1015
Most probably it because of your OS keybindings conflicts with VSCode keybindings. And most probably your OS keybinding (Ctrl
+Shift
in our case) is binded for something important (for example, changing of layout), and because of this system moves the focus from the app to system, and the app cannot receive keypress
event.
Any app cannot receive Ctrl-Shift-*
event, not only VSCode.
I'm using Ubuntu, and i set Ctrl+Shift
combination for layout change. After that i open developer console (Developer: Toggle Keyboard Shortcuts Troubleshooting
) and tested. Here is the log:
[2020-09-13 11:28:35.706] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: / Received keydown event - modifiers: [ctrl], code: ControlLeft, keyCode: 17, key: Control
[2020-09-13 11:28:35.706] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: | Converted keydown event - modifiers: [ctrl], code: ControlLeft, keyCode: 5 ('Ctrl')
[2020-09-13 11:28:35.706] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: \ Keyboard event cannot be dispatched.
What happens here? The app (VSCode) detects Left Ctrl
press. But when i press on Left Shift
, the system (Ubuntu) handles Any Ctrl+Any Shift
combination for layout change. Because the system (Ubuntu) handled this important event, it doesn't sends this event in the app (VSCode). And because of this the app (VSCode) don't received Left Shift
key press event, because it was interrupted by the system (Ubuntu).
If you seeing the same, then you know a reason of the problem.
Change system Ctrl+Shift
(by default it listens for Any
- left or right) event to Right Ctrl+Right Shift
(or left) event. In this case the system will listen only for right keys, and will send left keys in apps. You don't need to modify the app shortcuts (as long as they do not use exactly right or left keys).
Notice importance of Any
(default), Left
and Right
:)
I'm using Right Ctrl+Right Shift
for system layout change, and Left Ctrl+Left Shift+P
for command palette in VSCode.
And it is works now:
[2020-09-13 11:57:47.607] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: / Received keydown event - modifiers: [ctrl], code: ControlLeft, keyCode: 17, key: Control
[2020-09-13 11:57:47.607] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: | Converted keydown event - modifiers: [ctrl], code: ControlLeft, keyCode: 5 ('Ctrl')
[2020-09-13 11:57:47.607] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: \ Keyboard event cannot be dispatched.
[2020-09-13 11:57:47.715] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: / Received keydown event - modifiers: [ctrl,shift], code: ShiftLeft, keyCode: 16, key: Shift
[2020-09-13 11:57:47.715] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: | Converted keydown event - modifiers: [ctrl,shift], code: ShiftLeft, keyCode: 4 ('Shift')
[2020-09-13 11:57:47.715] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: \ Keyboard event cannot be dispatched.
[2020-09-13 11:57:47.789] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: / Received keydown event - modifiers: [ctrl,shift], code: KeyP, keyCode: 80, key: P
[2020-09-13 11:57:47.790] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: | Converted keydown event - modifiers: [ctrl,shift], code: KeyP, keyCode: 46 ('P')
[2020-09-13 11:57:47.790] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: | Resolving ctrl+shift+[KeyP]
[2020-09-13 11:57:47.790] [renderer1] [info] [KeybindingService]: \ From 3 keybinding entries, matched workbench.action.showCommands, when: no when condition, source: user.
I have Ctrl+Shift
combination in both systems: Windows and Ubuntu. But this problem happens only on Ubuntu. Windows works fine with it.
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 3683
Well seems like f1 works instead of control+shift+p. Don't know why it lists that as the keyboard shortcut...
Edit: So on some of my computers ctrl + shift + p works fine. Not sure perhaps its a conflict with the mappings on particular laptops.
Upvotes: 41