Override <ALT> to toggle menu bar on VS CODE

Question

What I want to achieve is as follows:

1. Disable ALT to show menu bar by toggle-menu-bar completely.

   -> Potentially map ALT to a NULL action?

2. Use a different shortcut to toggle-menu-bar.

Is there a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

On Ubuntu I needed this two settings in settings.json :

"window.titleBarStyle": "custom", "window.customMenuBarAltFocus": false 

(VS Code restart might be required)

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Related:

• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84227
• https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_36#_disable-alt-key-focus-of-the-custom-menu-bar

Answer 2

My only solution is to set menu always hidden to prevent interfering with alt-hotkeys. But enabling mnemonics still allows you to reveal it by pressing Alt+F for example.