alt key shortcuts in pycharm are not working on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

Shortcuts involving the Alt key are not working in pycharm.

For example the shortcut for "finding usages" on my machine is Alt+F7, but whenever I press this key, my cursor changes from an arrow to a hand (the icon it changes to when you move a window).

I am using Ubuntu 16.04.

Possible duplicate of Unable to use IntelliJ IDEA keyboard shortcuts on Ubuntu — congusbongus, Feb 01 '19 at 03:03

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 26 '18 at 17:22

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The solution that worked for me is described in this Ask Ubuntu answer.

In short: if you've already got used to combinations like Alt+F7, you can disable/change default Ubuntu shortcuts which are overlapping with default shortcuts used in PyCharm.

edited Oct 26 '18 at 17:22

Zanna

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answered Aug 03 '16 at 20:13

machnic

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oof, I didn't even think that the system shortcuts could be conflicting. I love my ALT+Click to drag windows around... didn't even cross my mind this was conflicting with ALT+Click to add carets in PyCharm! – nmz787 Jun 21 '20 at 21:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 12 '19 at 05:53

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All I would like to say is that the solution is simple:

Turn off Vim Emulation in the Tools menu

answered Apr 12 '19 at 05:53

rahul rachh

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alt key shortcuts in pycharm are not working on Ubuntu 16.04

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