Keyboard Layout Ignored (Possibly Reading keyCode Instead Of key)

[fweth]

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Description of the problem

It seems that my keyboard layout (Colemak) is not recognized by CodeSandbox for shortcuts (like Cmd+N, Cmd+K). It seems to look at the keyCode and map it to some QWERTY layout instead of reading out the key property of a key event?

How has this issue affected you? What are you trying to accomplish?

Almost impossible to use if all my shortcuts are gone. This is also a known problem with VSCode, but in the VSCode settings, "keyboard.dispatch": "keyCode", does the trick (which is unintuitive, should be the other way around, but anyway, it works).

Your Environment

Software	Name/Version
Сodesandbox
Browser	Firefox 122.0b9
Operating System	Ubuntu 23.04

[fweth]

Here is the relevant part from the VSCode docs, I don't know if the CSB editor depends on VSCode: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Keybinding-Issues#troubleshoot-linux-keybindings

[CompuIves]

Good report, we use VSCode for these keybindings and we might be using the wrong default settings. Thanks for sharing the docs as well! Will investigatge.

[fweth]

Ah hey, I just realized that we can bring our own VSCode settings! In this case I think you did nothing wrong, key is the default in VSCode so it makes sense for CSB to mirror that behaviour, as long as the users can change it :)

[tim-phillips]

Here's the relevant vscode issue: microsoft/vscode#23991