** Description changed: I find the <alt> key ergonomically very useful (it can be pressed with a thumb without moving any of the "letter" fingers) and I would like to use it for many custom keyboard shortcuts (there is a reason why it plays such a big role in Emacs and the whole OS X for that matter). Currently, though, <alt> is hardcoded to activate window menu entries (such as <alt>+F for the file menu, <alt>+E for the edit menu) and there is no way to surpass this functionality in all the applications. Personally, I find these shortcuts quite useless - they take you to "copy", "paste", and "open file" which have standard shortcuts anyway (with the exception of preferences, which for some reason don't have a standardized shortcut even though that's often the only thing a person looks for up there). Expected behaviour ----------------------------- - What I would like to see is a global option to disable these alt+<key> menu shortcuts to free up the <alt> key for other uses (similar to the option already available in gnome-terminal, only global). Preferably, activating this option would also remove the first-letter underlining in the menu to indicate to users that they can't acess it through shortcuts. - - (I marked nautilus for apport to collect my version numbers, but this affects most applications - didn't know what the right target is) + What I would like to see is a global option to disable these alt+<key> + menu shortcuts to free up the <alt> key for other uses (similar to the + option already available in gnome-terminal, only global). Preferably, + activating this option would also remove the first-letter underlining in + the menu to indicate to users that they can't acess it through + shortcuts. + + To reproduce: + ----------------------------- + + - in Unity settings -> keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Launchers change the "Launch terminal" shortcut to ALT+T + - hit <alt>-t, new terminial pops up + - start Thunderbird or Okular, both of which have a "Tools" menu + - note <alt>-t now opens the Tools menu + - kill the application + - hit <alt>-t, nothing happens + + (I marked nautilus for apport to collect my version numbers, but this + affects most applications - didn't know what the right target is) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35-generic 3.5.7.2 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Feb 2 13:22:32 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus GsettingsChanges: - b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'931x626+1+80'" - b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'start-with-status-bar' b'true' + b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'931x626+1+80'" + b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'start-with-status-bar' b'true' InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-19 (106 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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