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Shortcuts involving the Alt key are not working in pycharm.

For example the shortcut for "finding usages" on my machine is Alt+F7, but whenever I press this key, my cursor changes from an arrow to a hand (the icon it changes to when you move a window).

I am using Ubuntu 16.04.

Zanna
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The solution that worked for me is described in this Ask Ubuntu answer.

In short: if you've already got used to combinations like Alt+F7, you can disable/change default Ubuntu shortcuts which are overlapping with default shortcuts used in PyCharm.

Zanna
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All I would like to say is that the solution is simple:

Turn off Vim Emulation in the Tools menu