Behaviour of Alt+Space is weird

[zinga666]

What Happened?

The Alt+Space key combo has some flaws:

• there is no keyboard short cut documented for it in the System Settings (afaics)
• Alt+Space seems to show the window (manager?) context menu
• entries of the context menu can't be navigated/selected with the keyboard
• context menu can't be closed with Esc
• depending on the monitor setup using Alt+Space with open context menu behaves unexpected (see below)

Steps to Reproduce

With single monitor (laptop):

1. Open an app window, e.g. Terminal
2. Press Alt+Space -> context menu opens
3. Press Alt+Space again -> nothing happens -> ?!?!
4. Press Alt+Space again -> context menu disappears
5. Press Alt+Space again -> context menu opens again

Could be that steps 3./4. are the other way round (can't remember right now).

With multi-monitor (laptop + monitor (primary display)):

1. Open an app window, e.g. Terminal
2. Press Alt+Space -> context menu opens
3. Press Alt+Space again -> context menu appears on the second monitor
4. This context menu can't be closed with Esc and/or Alt+Space -> disappears only when mouse is clicked somewhere

Looks like the second menu is the context menu of the "monitor window".

Expected Behavior

• It should be possible to use the keyboard select entries of the context menu.
• It should be possible to close the context menu with Esc.
• In multi monitor setup the context menu of the monitor should not appear.

OS Version

8.x (Circe)

OS Architecture

amd64 (on most hardwares)

Session Type

Secure Session (Wayland, This is the default)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

Hardware Info

No response

[zinga666]

"Fun" fact: I don't even want to use this context menu but in elementary OS 6.x I had Alt+Space mapped to Ulauncher which is not possible anymore in elementary OS 8.1 but my muscle memory still forces me to hit this combo all the time.