VS Code has wrong keyboard shortcut layout

Question

I'm using a US keyboard for coding. But my VS Code installation is using a different shortcut layout. How can I switch to US keyboard shortcuts?

Maybe you can find helpful information here: code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/keybindings EDIT: I wonder why it wouldn't be US as this seems to be the default. — John Archer
– John Archer, Commented Dec 12, 2019 at 10:44
It seems the shortcut layout is supposed to change with switching the keyboard layout, but if so it's not working. This seems to work fine in Windows 10, but not in Ubuntu which I'm using now. — Lars Melander
– Lars Melander, Commented Dec 12, 2019 at 11:53
Don't know how it works in Ubuntu, but you are sure you have set the system wide keyboard layout settings in Ubuntu to US? — John Archer
– John Archer, Commented Dec 12, 2019 at 11:55
Now I found this page: github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/… Seems this is a known problem in Linux. — Lars Melander
– Lars Melander, Commented Dec 12, 2019 at 11:56

gruvw · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-26 13:37:16Z

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I had the same issue as I code with DVORAK keyboard layout and setting "keyboard.dispatch": "keyCode" in VS Code solved my issue.

answered Jan 26, 2021 at 13:37

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I've had to do this on github.dev, even though "normal" VS Code works fine for me

NOTE: It seems this only works in Linux and Mac, not Windows! See this comment: github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/…

Lars Melander · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-12 12:07:36Z

Yes, turned out this page had the answer:

Specifically, running

setxkbmap -layout us

solved my problem.