Sure is a complicated story.
But this Alt+F issue is larger than just gnome-terminal. As you can see,
it also breaks LibreOffice, which is a core desktop app for basically
ALL users. So that bug need to be fixed, and so becomes no longer a
reason to remove the mnemonics from gnome-terminal.
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gnome-terminal is a long complicated story (see the link from comment 5
if you care), BUT one of the 3 or so reasons we removed the global menu
mnemonics was that even if we enabled them, Alt+F didn't work. I can no
longer recall for sure, but I think Alt+F stopped working for us when we
ported to
Note, Alt+F10 will still work.
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Ah, It's because of this:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792978
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #792978
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792978
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I re-checked, indeed on my system, the ALT+F doesn't work for me. This
is on Bionic 18.04 LTS, which I hope to stick with for some time.
If there is a fix for the problem of missing first-mnemonic actions,
then I hope it can be backported! That seems the be the main theme here,
with the issues of
Gedit: Alt+F works for me (I am on cosmic using 3.28.1)
LibreOffice: Not sure
Terminal: Teminal ported to gmenu from gtk menu and after that they
removed ubuntu-specific stuff.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745329
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793105
So it may be
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Updating this report for Ubuntu 18.04.
I made a new install of Ubuntu 18.04 and switched to the Unity shell.
LibreOffice: can't use ALT+F to access the File menu. ALT+E (etc) work
fine; just not ALT+F.
Terminal: nothing seems to allow me to enable the ALT+F etc mnemonics in
Gnome Terminal.
For me, Gedit and Evince are working fine. Do they show horizontal menu-
bar? Gnome apps doesn't usually have menu-bar. Ubuntu patches few to
show menu-bar (file, edit etc) under unity. But if a app doesn't have
file menu, naturally ALT+F won't work.
Also there is this bug, LP: #1683383 which
