I don't think there's an Ubuntu bug here. You could take it up as a
Gnome design debate; I wouldn't be surprised if that's been hashed over
a few times.
gnome-terminal's default behavior is to steal the Alt key, for menu
accelerators. Users like us who want to use the full readline bindings
have to go to Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts, and uncheck 'Enable Menu Access
Keys'.
As for your comment about the HUD, that's not how the HUD uses Alt;
perhaps you've seen this, in the interim. It's activated by a short tap
of the Alt key alone. Any use of Alt as a modifier for another key is
meant to be unaffected. (Right now in Quantal, the HUD is being
triggered by one of those situations, though the keybinding still
succeeds. That's bug 969039, "HUD appears when tapping Alt+Left very
quickly". Any interference like that will be treated as a bug.
Thanks.
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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Inability to use the Meta key in gnome-terminal (probably related to
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