GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 135080
gnome-terminal disable all menu access keys does not disable alt-#
Last modified: 2016-02-21 14:58:04 UTC
Distribution: Debian testing/unstable Package: gnome-terminal Severity: major Version: 2.5.x Synopsis: gnome-terminal disable all menu access keys does not disable alt-# Bugzilla-Product: gnome-terminal Bugzilla-Component: general Bugzilla-Version: 2.5.x Description: Description of Problem: I don't know if the other key shortcuts aren't disabled but disabling all menu access keys definitely does not disable alt-# shortcuts. I wanted to disable the shortcuts so that I can use alt-# in irssi channel changing. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts 2. Click "Disable all menu access keys" Actual Results: It does not disable the alt-# keystroke shortcuts so if I have tabbed terminals it still switches terminals instead of passing alt-# (eg alt-1 alt-2 alt-3) through to irssi. Expected Results: It should disable the alt-# hotkeys for tabbed terminals and pass the keystrokes through to irssi. How often does this happen? Everytime, and has since 2.4, I actually maintain KDE for Debian so was very busy and forgot to file the bug the last time I tried out gnome. Additional Information: ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-02-21 17:36 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-terminal-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Note that that checkbox disables the menu access keys (lik alt-F to get to the File menu), not the keyboard shortcuts (those you can edit in the /Edit/Keyboard Shortcuts... dialog) All of the latter, in fact, should be working when the checkbox is checked. One thing I can think of is that you could set up your keyboard shortcuts so that Ctrl+Alt+1 goes to the first tab, and so on. I'm open to alternatives on gnome-terminal's side, though...
It would be nice if it was possible to completely disable shortcuts via a similiar (or even the same) checkbox so that apps that use more keys than usual can be used simply by checking that option instead of having to remap your keys and then possibly again later for a different app.
Another checkbox I doubt... We could disable both menu accels and kb shortcuts with that checkbox. -All- of them in one big swoop. That would probably remove the need for the “Disable menu chortcut key“ checkbox, too, I guess.
Yes, that sounds good.
I have noticed new behaviour in shift-F10 from version 2.2.2 it now pops up a context menu, which coincidentally, is a big problem here for an application
This might be fixed by removing the UI manager's accel group from the window, I think.
This has been possible since a long time, just disable those shortcuts from the Shortcuts tab in the Preferences dialogue.