Alt+F, Alt+B, etc. open menubar items instead of moving cursor forward and back on current command line

[Jeffrey Finkelstein]

What happens: Alt+F opens the "File" menu item and Alt+B shows the menubar (but does not open any menu item, because no menu item corresponding to that key combination exists).

What should happen: Alt+B moves the cursor back one word, and Alt+F moves the cursor forward one word.

Before Unity, hiding the menu bar allowed these key combinations to work as I expected. Now I cannot hide the menubar.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 14 15:45:59 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (0 days ago)

[Jeffrey Finkelstein (jfinkels)]

This is a problem not just when typing commands at the command-line prompt, but also when entering commands when running Emacs in the terminal.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Matt C (mvc1095)]

I have this problem too and it's driving me nuts. I see other bug reports (eg. #809500) which say that selecting and then deselecting "show menubar" hides the menu at the top of the screen for gnome terminal, thus making these key combinations work, but if that ever worked before it doesn't for me now.

[Matt C (mvc1095)]

Oops, there's a configuration option for exactly this. Never mind.

http://shebang.brandonmintern.com/oneiric-upgrade-breaks-readline-alt-b-and-alt