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All Alt-x menu shortcut keys in GNOME Terminal don't work under Unity (eg. Alt-t)

Bug #666926 reported by Serge Hallyn
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
AppMenu GTK+
Fix Released
High
Karl Lattimer
Unity
Fix Released
High
Neil J. Patel
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Booted from 10.10 netbook edition, I fired up a terminal. Alt-f brought
up the file menu, but alt-t did not bring up the terminal menu.

See bug #688018 for other notes/partial fixes mentioned in comment #24 wrt to the similar issue showing up in Gedit.

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Tags: keyboard
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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug and help to make ubuntu better.

Can you please try it in the GNOME session (logout, in GDM you can choose your session once you picked your name) and using the appmenu applet? This way, we will know if the cause is in appmenu-gtk or unity.

Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote : Re: [Bug 666926] Re: alt-t in terminal doesn't work

Quoting Didier Roche (<email address hidden>):
> Thanks for reporting this bug and help to make ubuntu better.
>
> Can you please try it in the GNOME session (logout, in GDM you can
> choose your session once you picked your name) and using the appmenu
> applet? This way, we will know if the cause is in appmenu-gtk or unity.

Yup, in the GNOME session alt-t works. Also, while I hold down
alt in a desktop - or 10.04 netbook - session, the first letter of
each menu becomes underlined. That doesn't happen in the 10.10
unity session. (I assume those are due to the same workaround.)

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote : Re: alt-t in terminal doesn't work

Hi - just to check up, is this marked 'triaged' because it is fixed upstream,
or because you know how to fix it? When might the fix be available in
maverick, if at all?

Paul Sladen (sladen)
summary: - alt-t in terminal doesn't work
+ All Alt-x menu shortcut keys in GNOME Terminal don't work under Unity
+ (eg. Alt-t)
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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Confirming for unity=3.2.2-0ubuntu1 (latest available).

Pressing Alt-anything (Alt-f, Alt-e, Alt-v, ...) does not cause the menu to appear.

Pressing Alt alone does not cause the underlines to appear.

Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Confirmed
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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

The is a major usability issue for developers and should probably have a higher priority. Granted, most regular users won't use a terminal but having such an annoying bug present will likely turn developers away from Unity.

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 666926] Re: All Alt-x menu shortcut keys in GNOME Terminal don't work under Unity (eg. Alt-t)

 importance high

Mark

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → High
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Duncan McGreggor (oubiwann) wrote :

Note that Ted Gould has at least a partial fix for this; he's been working with myself and Rick Spencer to address this issue. He's been focusing on GEdit as the test app; I've asked him to also test using GNOME Terminal.

Paul Sladen (sladen)
description: updated
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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote :

I can confirm that, as of at least today, alt-<x> all seem to be working
both in openoffice and gnome-terminal.

thanks!

David Barth (dbarth)
tags: added: keyboard
Changed in unity:
importance: Medium → High
Changed in appmenu-gtk:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

seems like the bug is fixed in Natty, anyone?

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote : Re: [Bug 666926] Re: All Alt-x menu shortcut keys in GNOME Terminal don't work under Unity (eg. Alt-t)

Quoting Omer Akram (<email address hidden>):
> seems like the bug is fixed in Natty, anyone?

It's fixed for me, thanks.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

thanks for confirming, marking this bug as fixed. feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in appmenu-gtk:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Did this get fixed and then break again? On natty latest, Ctrl-Alt-t Alt-anything does nothing for me?

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