"Alt" key-press events are captured by Unity global menu, even after turning-off "Show Menubar".
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After turning-off "Show Menubar", key events with the "Alt" key pressed does not generate an Escape+Letter ASCII code on the TTY input stream. The "Alt" key-press event is still captured by the Unity global menu.
To reproduce this issue:
1. Open a new gnome-terminal running Bash or Emacs.
2. Right-mouse-click the terminal window and un-check the menu option "Show Menubar"
3. Type a few words separated by spaces.
4. Press Ctrl-A to position the cursor at the beginning of the line.
5. Press Alt-F to move the cursor forward one word -- THIS FAILS. Instead the File menu pops-up.
Work-around:
You must instead press "Esc" and then "F" to generate the Escape-F ASCII code. This makes using the terminal very difficult.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 21 12:04:31 2011
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (6 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.