Linux keybinds not observing keyboard layout

[Caleb-T-Owens]

• VSCode Version: Insiders 1.43.0-1582938799 && Regular 1.42.1-1581432938
• OS Version: Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 19.04 // I updated recently to 19.10 and the issue persisted

Steps to Reproduce:

1. In ubuntu settings > languages and region > input sources, add another keyboard, Colemak is the layout that I use
2. attempt to use or set a keybind in vscode, you will find that it still acts like a querty keyboard

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

[vscodebot]

(Experimental duplicate detection)
Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• Web: Keyboard layout registration (#82594)
• Use current keyboard layout at startup time to determine key bindings (#89620)
• Support contributing different keybindings based on keyboard layout (#1240)

[alexdima]

@PinkFlufflyLlama Can you please check https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Keybinding-Issues#troubleshoot-linux-keybindings and see if any of that applies to you?

[Caleb-T-Owens]

"keyboard.dispatch": "keyCode" works, sorry for the late response @alexdima .
Why isn't this the default setting for Linux? Is there some sort of performance impedance? Do other ubuntu users also have this issue as well or if it's just me, what about my fairly default install affected it?

[alexdima]

The keyboard.dispatch setting is an emergency setting. It bypasses the native node module that reads the keyboard layouts and basically gives the nativeness of a web app running in a web browser. It used to work a lot better before Ubuntu began moving away entirely from X.

Let's track in #24166 .