[danpalmer]

The JetBrains IDEs implement their own raw keyboard event handling, which means that if you have your system set up with a non-standard keyboard layout and JetBrains hasn't implemented their own support, it just won't work.

The issue on their public issue tracker has been open for something like 8 years.

Unfortunately for me this means that no keyboard shortcuts using the Cmd key work, despite me using a built-in macOS keyboard layout with no special customisation.

[enitihas]

> despite me using a built-in macOS keyboard layout with no special customisation.

I also use a built-in macOS keyboard layout with no special customisation, and I regularly use shortcuts with Cmd. Perhaps you might want to change your Keymap in IntelliJ(this can be done by Double Shift -> Type Keymap -> Select new value.

Edit: For me, almost all the shortcuts detailed in this post work, just need to replace Ctrl with Cmd.

[danpalmer]

I'm using the Dvorak Cmd-QWERTY layout in macOS. This changes the layout to QWERTY whilst the Cmd key is held so that keyboard shortcuts are mostly in the same physical place (because most are about easy hand movements rather than letter). JetBrains does not match this behaviour.

[Splognosticus]

Huh, never realized that was a thing. Do the shortcuts in the menu show the QWERTY key or the Dvorak one? I'm curious how you learn the shortcuts if it still shows the QWERTY keys.

[danpalmer]

Shortcuts all show the correct letter value. So for Ctrl+T, I'd press what is the K key on a QWERTY keyboard. For Cmd+T, I'd press what is the T key on a QWERTY keyboard.

This can get a little confusing, but most common shortcuts contain the Cmd modifier on a Mac, so it's only really Terminal/iTerm where things are different.

My keyboard is still physically a QWERTY keyboard which makes knowing where Cmd shortcuts are very easy, I can just look. I switched to Dvorak when I was 18, but learnt with a Dvorak keyboard so I didn't learn it well enough and when I got to uni and had to use shared lab machines I couldn't manage and had to switch back. Then just over 3 years ago I had 3 weeks off work so switched at the beginning with no physically different keyboards and learnt it all by position and I'm still using it today. Less hand pain, and I can touch type where before I was proficient but not entirely by touch.