There is no shortcut to open the integrated terminal on Linux

[jeremy447]

Hello,

There is no shortcut to open the integrated terminal on Linux.

• VSCode Version: 1.15
• OS Version: Ubuntu

[Tyriar]

ctrl+` opens the integrated terminal on Ubuntu. You can customize this using the keybindings system https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/keybindings

[jeremy447]

I'm sorry I should have been more precise. I know that there should be that shortcut ctrl+` to open integrated terminal on Ubuntu but I tried it and it doesn't work (tried ctrl+² too for my locale (fr) ). I looked for it in the keyboard shortcuts and keybindings and it doesn't exist !

[Tyriar]

@Paviluf what shows up when you search for "Toggle Terminal" in keybindings?

[jeremy447]

Here it is on Fedora (at home, the ubuntu one is at work)

[Tyriar]

Looks like there is not shortcut by default for your locale, you can add one by hovering the row and hitting the pencil button on the left.

[jeremy447]

Thanks that work. Shouldn't it be working out of the box, even with french locale ?

[Tyriar]

Seems to work fine on Ubuntu, at least when I launch using code --locale=fr:

Let me know if your work Ubuntu machine is fine.

[jeremy447]

The shortcut isn't present even with --locale=fr on my Ubuntu computer.

[Tyriar]

Weird.. I assume you have fr set up as the system language? Maybe that's the issue. Moving to @alexandrudima as it seems to relate to the keybindings system.

[jeremy447]

Well on Fedora the "language" is set to english but the "formats" to french. However on Ubuntu it's full french.

[alexdima]

Our out-of-the-box keybinding for toggle terminal is ctrl + ` , which is interpreted as ctrl + the key combination that produces `. If for your keyboard layout no key combination produces `, then the toggle terminal command is unbound by default.

Simply click on the edit pencil next to the command and bind it to a keybinding.

[jeremy447]

You should reopen because there is a ` on my keyboard.

[alexdima]

@Paviluf ok. Can you then please do the following:

• open an editor
• run F1 > Developer: Inspect key mappings
• save as a file and upload here

I can then take a look and see if our logic is flawed.

[jeremy447]

Here it is from my Chromebook (the ` is on letter 7).

keyboard.txt

[alexdima]

@Paviluf

|       HW Code combination      |  Key  |
|                Ctrl+Alt+Digit7 |   `   |

"Digit7": {
	"value": "è",
	"withShift": "7",
	"withAltGr": "`",
	"withShiftAltGr": "⅞"
},

Indeed, ` can be produced by pressing AltGr + [Digit7]. i.e. ctrl+alt+[Digit7]. The relevant rows are above.

This means that our out of the box keybinding for ctrl+` would map to ctrl+ctrl+alt+[Digit7]. Since this is not expressible in terms of modifiers (it would require some form of modifier chording which AFAIK no editor supports), the keybinding for toggle integrated terminal is not bound out of the box.

Does that make sense?

[jeremy447]

That make sense. Just note that only AltGr + [Digit7] produce ` not ctrl+alt+[Digit7].

[alexdima]

AltGr is Ctrl+Alt
AltGr+[Digit7] is Ctrl+Alt+[Digit7].

This is explained in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#Control_.2B_Alt_as_a_substitute

In effect, we cannot differentiate AltGr from Ctrl+Alt+.

[alexdima]

Since I believe our algorithm for mapping default keybindings to the current keyboard layout is correct, I will close this issue for now.

Please upvote #1240 which is about that we ship with keyboard layout optimized default keybindings.

[jeremy447]

AltGr+[Digit7] is Ctrl+Alt+[Digit7]

Maybe but if I press it, nothing happen.