Start Menu Accessories Terminal
When terminal has started and prompt is displayed, type 'u' with or without the
quotes.
The main menu line at the top of the terminal window will toggle between
display and hide each time the lower case u is pressed.
When the menu line at the top of terminal is visible, click on View. The top
entry is Show Menubar and the keyboard shortcut shown at the right side of the
menu display is a U which is shown in upper case. However I find that upper
case U does not have this effect, only the lower case u toggles the menu.
On the menu bar click Edit, click Keyboard shortcuts. Deselect Enable
menu access keys. Click Close. The words on the menu bar show no
underlines. Type u. Menu no longer displays. Type u. Menu re-displays.
Click Edit, click Keyboard shortcuts. Enable menu access keys. Click
Close. Hold alt, press v, release alt, press m. The menu no longer
displays. Repeat alt-v ... nothing happens. Type u and the menu bar
displays.
Let's try to change the shortcut for menubar (currently u) to ctrl+alt+u
(ctrl and ctrl+shift are already in use). Alt e k. Scroll in shortcut
keys to view hide and show menubar, key U (which ought be u but let's
not get too fussy - though if you can make such a change for all letters
to which it is relevant, that would not be a bad thing to do). The Gnome
Terminal help file states Viewing the Keyboard Shortcut Settings but
of course I want to change them. There is no 'button' for doing so.
Right click in the line. Nothing. Left click. Nothing. Click all along
the line (you can see I'm trying to be thorough!)
!@#$%^* Oh my! Single click on the shortcut key character (in this case
the U) and the words New accelerator are shown. Hold down the ctrl and
alt and type u. The display changes to Ctrl+Alt+U - success!
Okay. The action required so that the bug can be marked 'fixed' is to
amend the documentation so that in Section 3.5, under Shortcut Keys,
there is an additional section called Changing Shortcut Keys which
contains the instruction left-click on the shortcut key value that you
want to change. Type the new key value to be used, including control,
alt and shift keys as required. The new key or key combination will
display. Click Close.
That, in my view, is the simplest, easiest, and most effective fix
required.
Thank you for your support. You forced me back to more thorough
investigation, which was indeed required, due to the shortfall in the
doco - which I sincerely hope will now be fixed!
Peter
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plain text in shortcuts prevent typing that character in terminal.
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