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By default the menu opens on ESCAPE, in place of the game’s pause menu, and on the controller’s START button. This page changes the key new players get. Each player can still choose their own.

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Before you start

  • The menu is installed and opens. See Install the menu.
  • The key you want is free on your server. Another resource bound to the same key fires at the same time.

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Steps

1

Set the key in menu.jsonc

In configs/menu.jsonc, set open.key to a key name FiveM knows, such as M, F5 or TAB. Add open.padKey to change the controller button too:
Leave open.command as it is. Renaming it creates a new binding and every player loses the key they chose.
2

Restart the menu

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Check that it worked

Join with a FiveM profile that has never been on your server, and press the new key. The menu opens.
Players who joined before the change keep the key they already had. FiveM saves the binding with each player’s own settings the first time they join, and the server cannot overwrite it. Tell your players to change it themselves, as below.

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How players choose their own key

  • Keyboard: on the key-binding page of the menu’s Settings tab, or in FiveM’s own key bindings, the binding is labelled Open 3D Pause Menu.
  • Controller: the game does not let players rebind a controller button there. In the F8 console:
Every accepted key and button name is listed under Menu.

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Next steps

  • Menu: the tab the menu opens on, and what it does while open.