# ESC Key Doesn't Bring Up Main Menu

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/esc-key-doesnt-bring-up-main-menu/17101>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [October 22, 2018, 6:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/esc-key-doesnt-bring-up-main-menu/17101 "2018-10-22T06:16:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Gun\_Shy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/gun_shy/32/3430_2.png) [@Gun\_Shy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Gun_Shy)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 6:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/esc-key-doesnt-bring-up-main-menu/17101/1 "2018-10-22T06:16:04Z")

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I have looked at the 3 “similar to” topics, and I assure you this is different. In-game, the ESC key doesn’t bring up the main menu. It registers as an unknown command. I never unbound it, and I can’t figure out how to rebind it, even though I **do know** how to bring up the key bindings. Can’t find it in there anywhere.

I have no clue

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**Author:** ![Wayticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wayticus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Wayticus)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/esc-key-doesnt-bring-up-main-menu/17101/2 "2018-10-22T21:42:54Z")

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I’v never seen the unkown command thing, but, Main Menu should be what it is listed under for keybindings, if that isn’t in there, then either pull a keybindings file from another install preferably clean, or you can check the keybindings file see if there is a line in it for main menu. Besides that I don’t know.

Using notepad++ in mine it is line 188

{ “id”: “main\_menu”, “category”: “DEFAULTMODE”, “bindings”: [{ “input\_method”: “keyboard”, “key”: [ “ESC”] } ]  
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