Debug Canvas pops up whenever I press SHIFT+W

In the player within the editor, this “Debug Canvas” overlay is triggered simply by the key combo “SHIFT+W”, which of course means “sprint” in any default FPS controls. So as soon as I try to sprint in my game, it pops up this overlay which robs all control from the keyboard and makes the game unplayable. It shows up in the hierarchy as “Debug Canvas”.

I can’t find anything in the Keyboard Shortcuts to disable this, I removed a couple that looked like they would be it, but it still shows up.

I’m using Unity 2021.2.16f1, this is on Endeavour OS, which is an Arch based Linux.

I have never seen this window before, are you sure it is not an option menu in your game? Why not change the sprint button or use a controller?

Yes I’m pretty sure I didn’t accidentally make an entire menu. :roll_eyes: This is actually part of Unity, from what I can tell it’s called “Debug Canvas”. If you search the term on the net, you’ll find other people mentioning it popping up, although under entirely different circumstances than me. You can see an example here .

Of course I could just re-bind a different sprint button to use while testing, but surely there is a way to find out why this key combo is triggering the Debug Canvas…

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You should probably post this in the SRP section as it’s not linux specific

I’ll give that a go, but I don’t get this problem on Windows 10 at all (I’m dual booting) on the same project, and same version of Unity, so to me this seems Linux specific.

I get the same issue with 2022.1.2f1 on Ubuntu 20.04.4 (same key combination also, Shift+W)

It’s still happening in 2021.3.1f1, can’t test in 2021.3.11f1 because it crashes.

I looked in the Keyboard shortcuts settings, and I can’t find anything that would open this “Debug canvas”.

Pretty strange that there’s zero info on this very “helpful” window, I mean, somebody made it, there must be some info on it somewhere…

And by the way, it’s VERY Linux specific.

SOLVED. Unchecked this and it is gone.