Forced menu visibility breaks keybindings in gnome-terminal

[dobey]

Unity's interaction model design requires that any application which provides a menu bar, have that menu bar "displayed" at all times, in the top panel. For gnome-terminal, this breaks Alt-modifier keybindings which conflict with any of the menu's mnemonics. This also breaks the very visible option in a profile's preferences in gnome-terminal, to not show the menu bar by default, as well as the "Show Menubar" option on the right-click menu.

This for instance, means that Alt+b cannot be used to go backward one word on the command line, as instead the Ta_bs menu is opened.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,gnomecompat,regex,animation,snap,grid,compiztoolbox,move,vpswitch,resize,place,imgpng,mousepoll,workarounds,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,session,resizeinfo,ezoom,wall,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Sat Nov 12 09:57:18 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-12 (0 days ago)

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

I can reproduce this when menu access keys are enabled in GNOME-Terminal and Alt+B is pressed. But from my experience, Alt+B seems to be the only affected key.

Steps to reproduce:
Go to edit->Keyboard Shortcuts
Ensure that the first check box is checked
Go back to terminal, type "sudo apt-get install"
Press alt+b

Expected result:
Cursor should move to the beginning of "apt-get"

Actual result:
Cursor doesn't move at all.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[skquinn (skquinn)]

Switching to the GNOME shell instead of Unity doesn't help. I tried this, partially to work around this bug, and partially because I just got sick of Unity. So this isn't specific to Unity at all.

[Andrew Aylett (andrew-aylett)]

This seems to affect only key combinations that have associated menus -- the ones I'm trying to use are Alt-F and Alt-B; Alt-D and Alt-# still work.

[Alex Baggott (alex-baggott)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu and cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.