I am a Windows user and have been trying out Gnome 43 for a week. Unlike in Windows, it seems that I can’t use keyboard shortcuts (i.e., SUPER to open overview, or other shortcuts I have set such as CTRL + SHIFT + ESC to open System Monitor, or SUPER + T to open Terminal, or SUPER + B to open my default Browser) while a context menu is open (i.e., right click on the desktop).
Is this the intended behavior? Is there a way to change this behavior so that it would prioritize keyboard shortcuts and would close the already opened context menu, just like in Windows?
You can switch from a X11 session to a Wayland session on the login screen in the gear menu on the bottom right. On X11 menus have mouse and keyboard grabs, which mean that they get exclusive access to those before they can be handled by gnome-shell. On Wayland gnome-shell gets to handle the input before it forwards it to the client.