When pressing "alt" to show the menu bar, keyboard focus is not given to it

[tristanlabelle]

Repro:

• Use "View/Toggle Menu Bar" to hide the menu bar
• Press and release "alt", the menu bar appears
• Try using the arrow keys or mnemonic keys ('F' for 'File' menu)

Actual: there is no way to interact with the menu bar from the keyboard
Expected: same as the Hide Menu Bar extension for VS, where pressing alt gives keyboard focus to the "file menu", which allows navigating with the keyboard arrows or mnemonic keys.

Windows 10, VSCode 0.10.8

[stkb]

To add some information, if you hold alt and press f, then it works as expected, but not if you press them separately.

[Tyriar]

It looks like this is just how Electron behaves under Windows 10, you may want to file an issue there.

[bpasero]

Might be related to #1569

[benliddicott]

Definitely related to #1569

[benliddicott]

Appears to be a duplicate of #1569

• See also Menu keyboard shortcuts do not function properly. #45186 : Menu keyboard shortcuts do not function properly
• See also Cannot navigate top-level menu with keyboard #36077 : Cannot navigate top-level menu with keyboard

[rik-smeets]

Yes, this is an Electron issue. See #2504 over at their repository.

[wolf99]

AFAICT the pressing and holding trick mentioned by @stkb doesn't work (or has stopped working) as this bug randomly appeared for me today - everything worked as normally expected previously

update I've had occasion to reinstall vscode several times recently and this behaviour seems to have disappeared. Though I don't think any updates have been applied...

[sbatten]

This is resolved in our custom menubar implementation via #53924. The new menubar can be enabled via the setting 'window.titlebarStyle' => custom