Ctrl+F shortcut intercepted by GNOME on Linux
Cluster 81727 · apps/desktop. Data as of
Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #86842 on 15 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #86842. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
resolved, deciding PR #86842. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- Nothing open on GitHub.
A bug report and two related fix attempts address Ctrl+F being captured by the Pop!_OS/GNOME environment before the desktop app can handle it. The fixes explore different approaches to claiming the keyboard shortcut at the Electron/main-process level.
Open issues0
Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#86842 fix(desktop): claim Ctrl/Cmd+F via before-input-event so Pop!_OS / GNOME doesn't eat it (salvage #81781)
files:
apps/desktop/electron/find-in-page.test.ts,apps/desktop/electron/find-in-page.ts,apps/desktop/electron/main.ts,apps/desktop/electron/preload.ts,apps/desktop/src/components/find-bar.tsx,apps/desktop/src/global.d.ts,apps/desktop/src/store/find-in-page.ts
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: other 1
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#81781 fix(desktop): claim Ctrl/Cmd+F in main process so Pop!_OS / GNOME doesn't eat it (#81727) · other →
#86842,#81727
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#81727[Bug]: Ctrl+F shortcut dead on Pop!_OS (Linux) — find only reachable via menu
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- Subsystem
- apps/desktop
- Merged PRs
- #86842
- Closed issues
- 1
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 15 Aug 2026