Implement [Alt]+[Spacebar] Windows menu

[mfinky]

Please, implement the (standard) Windows menu when we press [Alt]+[Spacebar].
This will let us (for instance) minimize vscode using just keyboard instead of mouse.

Thanks!

[DonJayamanne]

@deepak1556 is this a feature request or a bug?

[mfinky]

I may not have the authority to classify it. To me, it is both. Considering Being VSCode is a Windows application, I expect it to adhere to Windows standards. Namely, when a user presses [Alt]+[Space], the application shall open the system menu, offering {Resize, Move, Size, Minimize, Close}. In that regard, it is a bug; as it does not pass a test that I consider standard for a Windows application.

If the above is rejected to be considered a bug by anyone, please consider it a feature request. I would like to enhance that VsCode should not react to a mouse click on the left top corner but to the keyboard shortcut! It has to do with accessibility. In my case, and I assume there will be other users on the same situation, I have a limitation to using a mouse and I use keyboard as much as I can. Being able to use a keyboard shortcut to maximize, minimize, etc. a window is of great importance to me.

Thanks, Marcelo

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[mfinky]

I also want to add: VS Code is the the most impressive IDE I have ever used! Endless gratitude to the authors! I consider myself a quite advanced user, with experience in editors like Visual Studio pro (including jetbrains), Visual Studio Community Edition, Eclipse, jEdit, the built-in PowerShell ISE, and others like Notepad++, VIM (sigh), IBM SEU, and I must be forgetting others.

Congratulations and THANK YOU !!! Marcelo

[deepak1556]

I can see the context menu open with Alt + Space using both custom "window.titleBarStyle": "custom" and native titlebar "window.titleBarStyle": "native".

The context menu for custom titlebar was implemented in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/156222 and for native titlebar it was always present.

@mfinky can you share a screen capture of the steps that demonstrate the issue, please also include your settings.json in this issue thread. Thanks!

[deepak1556]

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[mfinky]

Hello,

I have just added … "window.titleBarStyle":"custom" … as last line to my settings.json file and after restarting VS-code the feature works. With “native” also works. Without this line it does not work for me.

I am including the full settings.json as requested, but I had to edit and delete lines from this file because I realized there were compromising values exposed in clear text. Like p s s w r d s , server names, and things like that.

{ "security.workspace.trust.untrustedFiles": "open", "redhat.telemetry.enabled": false, "python.defaultInterpreterPath": "*****", "[python]": { "editor.defaultFormatter": "ms-python.python", "editor.cursorBlinking": "expand", "editor.cursorSurroundingLines": 5, "editor.formatOnType": true }, "git.suggestSmartCommit": false, "[bat]": { "emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true, "breadcrumbs.showVariables": true, "editor.cursorBlinking": "smooth", "editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation": "on", "editor.cursorStyle": "line", "editor.cursorSurroundingLines": 5, "outline.showVariables": true, }, "editor.fontLigatures": false , "workbench.colorCustomizations": { "editor.background": "#112233" , "titleBar.activeBackground": "#002277" , "titleBar.inactiveBackground": "#333333" , "menu.border": "#ffffff" },

"diffEditor.ignoreTrimWhitespace": false,
"oracledevtools.bookmarkFileFolder": ""*********",
"oracledevtools.download.otherFolder": ""*********",
"oracledevtools.connectionConfiguration.configFilesFolder": ""*********",
"oracledevtools.connectionConfiguration.walletFileFolder": ""*********",
"code-runner.clearPreviousOutput": true,
"[powershell]": {
    "editor.cursorBlinking": "expand",
    "editor.cursorSurroundingLines": 3
},
"editor.minimap.enabled": false,
"oracledevtools.OracleCloudInfrastructure.profiles": [
    {
        "profileName": "DEFAULT",
        "tenancyID": ""*********",
        "tenancyName": ""*********"
    }
],
"oracledevtools.defaultConnection": "",
"oracledevtools.connections": [
    {
        "authenticationType": 2,
        "dBAPrivilege": "None",
        "userID": "EDW_BUS_"********* ",
        "passwordSaved": true,
        "password": ""*********",
        "dataSource": ""*********",
        "connectionType": 1,
        "tnsAdmin": ""*********",
        "name": ""*********",
        "currentSchema": ""
    },
    }
],
"oracledevtools.formatterSettings": {
    "identifierCasing": "Same as Intellisense",
    "keywordCasing": "Same as Intellisense",
    "1-LineLongComments": "Don't format",
    "lineBreaksBetweenStatements": "Double break",
    "lineBreakOnComma": "Before",
    "lineBreakOnConcatenation": "Before",
    "lineBreakOnBooleanConnectors": "Before",
    "lineBreakOnANSI-joins": true,
    "lineBreakBeforeLineComments": false,
    "lineBreakAfterSelect/From/Where": true,
    "lineBreaksOnIf/Case/While": "Indented actions, inlined conditions",
    "whiteSpaceAroundOperators": "Don't format",
    "whiteSpaceAfterCommas": true,
    "whiteSpaceAroundParenthesis": "Don't format"
},
"mssql.connections": [
    {
    }
],
"update.showReleaseNotes": false,
"sqltools.useNodeRuntime": true,
"oracledevtools.intellisense.suggestions.keywordCasing": "Lowercase",
"editor.linkedEditing": true,
"window.zoomLevel": 2,
"workbench.colorTheme": "Default Dark+",
"terminal.integrated.automationProfile.windows": {

},
"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "Command Prompt",
"window.commandCenter": true,
"window.titleBarStyle":"custom"

}

Thank you, Marcelo Finkielsztein

From: Robo @.> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2023 22:07 To: microsoft/vscode @.> Cc: Finkielsztein, Marcelo @.>; Mention @.> Subject: [External] Re: [microsoft/vscode] Implement [Alt]+[Spacebar] Windows menu (Issue #193102)

I can see the context menu open with Alt + Space using both custom "window.titleBarStyle": "custom" and native titlebar "window.titleBarStyle": "native".

The context menu for custom titlebar was implemented in #156222 and for native titlebar it was always present.

@mfinky can you share a screen capture of the steps that demonstrate the issue, please also include your settings.json in this issue thread. Thanks!

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[mfinky]

I can see the context menu open with Alt + Space using both custom "window.titleBarStyle": "custom" and native titlebar "window.titleBarStyle": "native".

The context menu for custom titlebar was implemented in #156222 and for native titlebar it was always present.

@mfinky can you share a screen capture of the steps that demonstrate the issue, please also include your settings.json in this issue thread. Thanks!

please see my reply above. when i added "window.titleBarStyle":"custom" as last line to my settings.json file the feature started to work.

Thanks, Marcelo

[mfinky]

added "window.titleBarStyle":"custom" as last line to my settings.json file the feature started to work.