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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/755283 Title: plain text in shortcuts prevent typing that character in terminal. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
