Text highlighting doesn't work with shortcuts on linux

WHAT IS THE BUG

Clicking ctrl+b or ctrl+i or any other text highlighting shortcut assigned in keyboad shortcuts doesn’t work. But, I can manually select text and bold it.

HOW TO REPRODUCE IT

Outline the steps needed to reproduce the behavior in sequence:

  1. Go to anytype on fedora, lenovo legion laptop

  2. create an object

  3. In main field try clicking ctrl+b

  4. Still writes with normal text, not bold.

THE EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

See bold text.

ADDITIONAL CONTEXT

Had the same problem on the previous version 0.55.5. When clicking for example ctrl+b initially I can see the cursor(the line) flicker like it recognizes the keybind.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Provide your setup info:
Desktop: Top Menu > Help > TOS version:

Lenovo Legion 7i

linux x64 7.1.3-201.fc44.x86_64 - fedora 44 workstation

App version:

0.56.0

Build number:

build on 2026-07-17 23:05:35 +0000 UTC at #d03cedda1073744beab396559622e7847a955f1f

Library version:

v0.50.17ech Info

Thanks for reporting this, we’ll take a look into it.