[Desktop-packages] [Bug 993973] Re: In Unity, the "Show Menubar" item in the contextual menu is useless and the Menubar hijacks shortcuts from the shell
You can stop gnome-terminal from trapping Alt for the menus in
Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts.
I'm not closing this as the menubar not being technically disablable is
perhaps a bug (though, really, just a minor cosmetic inconvenience),
I'll leave that to the desktop team.
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Title:
In Unity, the "Show Menubar" item in the contextual menu is useless
and the Menubar hijacks shortcuts from the shell
Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
In the classic desktop, a user could disable the gnome-terminal menu
bar by de-selecting the "Show Menubar" option in the "View" menu or in
the contextual (right click) menu.
In Unity, this option is useless, since the menubar remains accessible
in the global Unity menu bar.
This is a problem because, when active, the menu bar captures
shortcuts that were intended for the shell.
For example, in bash with emacs key-bindings "Alt+F" moves forward one
word at a time, but inside gnome-terminal, with the menu bar visible,
it opens the "File" menu.
In the classic desktop, hiding the menu bar also stops the capture of
"Alt+" combinations, which are sent directly to the shell.
In the pt-BR locale, I have the same problem, but with the "Alt+B"
shortcut, which opens the Tabs ("Abas") menu.
I never need the menu bar, since most options are accessible from the
context menu (and I rarely use them), but I care about moving fast
between words.
One work-around, is to use "ESC, F" (releasing ESC before pressing F)
instead of "Alt+F", but it's a lot more cumbersome, specially if used
repeatedly.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.4.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 3 14:47:49 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120425)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 993973] Re: In Unity, the "Show Menubar" item in the contextual menu is useless and the Menubar hijacks shortcuts from the shell
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993973
Title:
In Unity, the "Show Menubar" item in the contextual menu is useless
and the Menubar hijacks shortcuts from the shell
Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
In the classic desktop, a user could disable the gnome-terminal menu
bar by de-selecting the "Show Menubar" option in the "View" menu or in
the contextual (right click) menu.
In Unity, this option is useless, since the menubar remains accessible
in the global Unity menu bar.
This is a problem because, when active, the menu bar captures
shortcuts that were intended for the shell.
For example, in bash with emacs key-bindings "Alt+F" moves forward one
word at a time, but inside gnome-terminal, with the menu bar visible,
it opens the "File" menu.
In the classic desktop, hiding the menu bar also stops the capture of
"Alt+" combinations, which are sent directly to the shell.
In the pt-BR locale, I have the same problem, but with the "Alt+B"
shortcut, which opens the Tabs ("Abas") menu.
I never need the menu bar, since most options are accessible from the
context menu (and I rarely use them), but I care about moving fast
between words.
One work-around, is to use "ESC, F" (releasing ESC before pressing F)
instead of "Alt+F", but it's a lot more cumbersome, specially if used
repeatedly.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.4.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 3 14:47:49 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120425)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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