<p dir="auto">[alt + click] for custom multiple cursors does not work on Linux.</p>
<p dir="auto">On most Linux desktops <code class="notranslate">alt+click</code> will allow you drag a window by clicking anywhere over it. This conflicts with the multiple cursors binding.</p>
<p dir="auto">It's still possible to obtain multiple cursors with commands like <code class="notranslate">insertCursorAbove</code> or <code class="notranslate">insertCursorAtEndOfEachLineSelected</code>, but this affects multiple people, and it's already covered in some <a href="https://2buntu.com/articles/1529/visual-studio-code-comes-to-linux/#multiple-cursors_3044" rel="nofollow">articles</a> with a workaround (which I'm copying here for Gnome based systems: <code class="notranslate">gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier "&lt;Super&gt;"</code> change <code class="notranslate">&lt;Super&gt;</code> with your preferred key )</p>
<p dir="auto">It's also acknowledged <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/editingevolved#_selection-multicursor" rel="nofollow">in VScode's documentation</a> that this shortcut might conflict even on Windows or Macosx...</p>
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<p dir="auto">Note: Your graphics card provider might overwrite these default shortcuts.</p>
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<p dir="auto">So, fixing this for Linux users might also be useful elsewhere. For comparison, the Atom editor uses <code class="notranslate">ctrl+click</code> instead of <code class="notranslate">alt+click</code> for this shortcut.</p>
<p dir="auto">Rather than changing the default, making it customizable would already be a welcome improvement, but afaik unfortunately there's no way to change it. These are a couple of related default keybindings:</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="{ &quot;key&quot;: &quot;ctrl+shift+up&quot;,         &quot;command&quot;: &quot;editor.action.insertCursorAbove&quot;,
                                 &quot;when&quot;: &quot;editorTextFocus&quot; },
{ &quot;key&quot;: &quot;shift+alt+up&quot;,          &quot;command&quot;: &quot;editor.action.insertCursorAbove&quot;,
                                 &quot;when&quot;: &quot;editorTextFocus&quot; }"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">{ "key": "ctrl+shift+up",         "command": "editor.action.insertCursorAbove",
                                 "when": "editorTextFocus" },
{ "key": "shift+alt+up",          "command": "editor.action.insertCursorAbove",
                                 "when": "editorTextFocus" }
</code></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">But since I cannot find any <code class="notranslate">editor.action.insertCursor</code> command, it seems that this option is lacking.</p>