From 18f92ecd75743574242729c6b9035d786a24bbd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roman Stingler <roman.stingler@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 13:40:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] only listen for Escape while it can close a menu

---
 src/app.rs | 29 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/app.rs b/src/app.rs
index 831660ed..d5123574 100644
--- a/src/app.rs
+++ b/src/app.rs
@@ -715,18 +715,25 @@ impl App {
                 _ => Message::None,
             }),
             iced::output_events().map(Message::OutputEvent),
-            listen_with(move |evt, _, _| match evt {
-                iced::event::Event::Keyboard(keyboard::Event::KeyPressed { key, .. }) => {
-                    debug!("Keyboard event received: {key:?}");
-                    if matches!(key, keyboard::Key::Named(keyboard::key::Named::Escape)) {
-                        debug!("ESC key pressed, closing all menus");
-                        Some(Message::CloseAllMenus)
-                    } else {
-                        None
+            // Only listen while Escape can close a menu; an idle listener
+            // subscription still receives every interaction event and would
+            // overflow iced's fixed-size event channel for nothing.
+            if self.general_config.enable_esc_key && self.outputs.menu_is_open() {
+                listen_with(|evt, _, _| match evt {
+                    iced::event::Event::Keyboard(keyboard::Event::KeyPressed { key, .. }) => {
+                        debug!("Keyboard event received: {key:?}");
+                        if matches!(key, keyboard::Key::Named(keyboard::key::Named::Escape)) {
+                            debug!("ESC key pressed, closing all menus");
+                            Some(Message::CloseAllMenus)
+                        } else {
+                            None
+                        }
                     }
-                }
-                _ => None,
-            }),
+                    _ => None,
+                })
+            } else {
+                Subscription::none()
+            },
             Subscription::run(|| match signal_hook_tokio::Signals::new([libc::SIGUSR1]) {
                 Ok(signals) => signals
                     .filter_map(|sig| {