'F10' keystroke captured by Terminal window

[Jason S. Wagner]

Binary package hint: htop

htop displays a list of keyboard shortcuts along the bottom of the screen. 'F10' allegedly closes htop, but this is impossible from Ubuntu's Terminal window, which captures the F10 key to open the menu.

In testing, I found the F10 key inconsistently opened menus across different applications, without any apparent consistency. For example, F10 opened menus in gEdit and Nautilus, but didn't open menus in Firefox.

This seems like a poor choice for a hotkey, since there are faster and more efficient ways to open these menus (ALT+arrows to walk them, ALT+marked letter to jump straight to a desired menu, etc)..

I didn't know where to start taking down Goliath, but I figured I'd start with the package I first noticed it in. Please reassign as necessary.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: htop 0.8.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 2 01:16:20 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia:

ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: htop