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Allow the keymap and settings UI to be opened without an active window#49527

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Allow the keymap and settings UI to be opened without an active window#49527
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@transitoryangel transitoryangel commented Feb 18, 2026

Closes #49155.

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  • UI: Allow the keymap and settings UI to be opened without an active window

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Thanks for this! Overall looks sensible, left a few comments

@MrSubidubi MrSubidubi self-assigned this Feb 18, 2026
before this change, if you opened a project, closed the window, and
opened the settings menu, the last opened project would still show up in
the ui. this fixes that issue
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@MrSubidubi - poking you again about this to see if any changes are necessary

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Sorry for the delay, looks indeed good now, thanks!

A slight thing I noticed: When I use the now fixed dropdown and have a window on a secondary screen open, that window will be hidden. So I have something fullscreen on my top monitor, then open patched Zed on the lower, close the window and open the settings with your fix, the window on my upper screen will go offscreen.

Not blocking here, but if you feel like it, feel free to look into that.

With that said, thank you for the PR here and your persistence, congratulations on your first contribution and have a great weekend! 🎉

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@MrSubidubi MrSubidubi merged commit 66f3b32 into zed-industries:main Mar 20, 2026
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AmaanBilwar pushed a commit to AmaanBilwar/zed that referenced this pull request Mar 23, 2026
zed-industries#49527)

Closes zed-industries#49155. 

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Release Notes:

- UI: Allow the keymap and settings UI to be opened without an active
window

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Co-authored-by: MrSubidubi <finn@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Finn Evers <finn.evers@outlook.de>
MrSubidubi added a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 24, 2026
Solves an issue introduced by
#49527 until we land
#52275.

No release notes since this is only on Nightly.

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