Allow rebinding existing app shortcuts (e.g. Toggle sidebar) and expose Quit (Ctrl+Q) in Keyboard Shortcuts
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Description
What variant of Codex are you using?
App (Windows desktop, 26.901.5280.0)
What feature would you like to see?
Context: I keep "toggle sidebar" on Ctrl+Q in every VS Code–based editor I use, because Ctrl+B is a full-hand stretch for something I press dozens of times a day. The Codex App is the only place I can't make that change.
The Keyboard Shortcuts page (Ctrl+/) already handles the easy half — assigning keys to unassigned actions like "Search chats" works fine. What's missing:
- Rebinding actions that ship with a default. "Toggle sidebar" is locked to Ctrl+B.
- Quit isn't in the picture at all. Ctrl+Q exits the app, but searching the shortcuts list for "quit" returns nothing — the binding lives below the visible layer, so it can't be reassigned, disabled, or conflict-checked against anything a user sets. Confirmed on 26.901.5280.0: pressing Ctrl+Q closes the app immediately, list entry or not.
These two keys collide by design, so fixing either alone doesn't unlock the use case: rebind the sidebar to Ctrl+Q and the shell may still quit first — there's no defined precedence today. Treating them together — rebindable defaults plus configurable (or disablable) native bindings — is what actually unblocks it.
Additional information
- Related: #27834 (native-menu commands honor only the first configured keybinding), #27835 ("Add another shortcut" discoverability).
- Windows 11 x64 here, daily-driving the App — glad to test any build that moves on this. The moment rebinding ships, my whole keymap migrates the same day. Ctrl+Q as a quit shortcut, meanwhile, is doing its one job a little too well.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start from the Keyboard Shortcuts page opened with Ctrl+/ and trace how default bindings are represented and how native Ctrl+Q handling bypasses the visible list. Define the precedence between configurable shortcuts and native commands, then verify that Toggle sidebar and Quit can be rebound, disabled, and conflict-checked without the app exiting unexpectedly.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100