Comment 31 for bug 787465

Dan:
The emacs-style shortcuts you refer to are part of bash, so I don't
think removing anything in gnome-terminal would be removing that
functinality in bash, unless that was intentional, which would be very
very mean. :(

There already is an option available via gconf-editor, that has to do
with menu mnemonics. Disabling menu mnemonics in gnome-terminal
enables you to keep the menu bar and still have ALT+F and ALT+B be
passed through to the application running in the terminal.

But I definitely would want this to be a full-fledged option in
gnome-terminal's preferences. That would be sweet.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 18:52, Dan Bolser <email address hidden> wrote:
> Please don't disable this...
>
> When using gnome terminal, I like to move around the CLI using ctrl-f/b.
> To do this, I need to turn off the menu, so that my keystrokes don't get
> interpreted as menu commands.
>
> This is the only reason I turn off the menu.
>
> It doesn't matter where the menu is... I want it off so I can use
> ctrl-f/b (and other keystrokes) to interact with the cli. Please don't
> break this, because gnome-terminal is one of the best.
>
>
> thanks,
> Dan.
>
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>
> Title:
>  View->Show MenuBar isn't working in 11.04 and later in gnome-terminal
>
> Status in “appmenu-gtk” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
> Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
>
>  If you click on the global menus the View->Show MenuBar and (un)check
>  it, it won't work, the menu will stay at the 'global menus panel' or
>  whatever it is. In my opinion this option shouldn't exist now,
>  considering that global menus are the future, and also considering
>  that a global menu has the advantage not to keep its own space on the
>  screen  :)
>
>  WORKAROUND:
>  1. sudo apt-get purge appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3
>  2. Logout
>  3. Login
>
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