Ctrl+Shift+E inerts special characters into file instead of showing Explore Pane in VS Code

In visual studio code, I prefer having the "Activity Bar" hidden and use the key combinations Ctrl+Shift and E,F,G or X to reach the individual panes.

Ctrl+Shift

E,F,G

X

When I am in the Search pane (revealed with Ctrl+Shift+F) with focus on the editor, I hit Ctrl+Shift+E with the intention of reaching the Explorer pane; instead of exposing the Explorer pane, code inserts the character e with a black underline.

Ctrl+Shift+F

Ctrl+Shift+E

e

Now, I suppose this is some feature to insert special characters into editors but, Ctrl+Shift+E as a shortcut for this seems little too conspicuous don't you think? especially when it is already been used for something else?

Ctrl+Shift+E

I'm not sure when this behavior was changed but I remember that it used to work earlier. I there a way by which I can disable this special character insertion feature and restore order?

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Okay, it took some time to narrow down this issue. It appears, GTK3 reserves the key combination Ctrl+Shift+E to insert Emoji.

Good news is, this feature has been removed in GTK version 3.24. You can update your GTK version to fix this issue.

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