On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Jeffery Small wrote:

A new feature in 2.8 appears to be keyboard accelerators (shortcuts) for the pull-down menus. For example, Alt-S displays the Select menu, Alt-W the Windows menu, etc.

Hi Jeff,

It's not a new feature, it's an old feature. It just didn't work on some systems before.

I have already assigned these key-combinations to other functions in the keyboard shortcuts menu, but the default menubar assignments are taking precedence.

As they should be :)

How can I disable these menu accelerators so that I can regain the use of the Alt-[ESVILCTRWH] sequences?

Theoretically, you need to find or create a files called ".gtkrc-2.0" and add the following line:

gtk-enable-mnemonics = 0

Maybe there should be a toggle on the Configure Keyboard Shortcuts menu to handle this.

It sounds like a too much of a corner case for an option, IMHO.

And certainly, if you reassign these keystrokes in the menu, their original function should be disabled.

Maybe :)

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 09:20:26PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

Maybe there should be a toggle on the Configure Keyboard Shortcuts menu to handle this.

It sounds like a too much of a corner case for an option, IMHO.

And certainly, if you reassign these keystrokes in the menu, their original function should be disabled.

Maybe :)

Wouldn't it make most sense to unify the two, so that the menu selectors are configurable in the normal key shortcut dialog?

Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org          

On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:

Maybe there should be a toggle on the Configure Keyboard Shortcuts menu to handle this.

It sounds like a too much of a corner case for an option, IMHO.

And certainly, if you reassign these keystrokes in the menu, their original function should be disabled.

Maybe :)

Wouldn't it make most sense to unify the two, so that the menu selectors are configurable in the normal key shortcut dialog?

As far as I can tell, accelerators are conceptually not configurable in GTK+.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On Sun, 2012-12-02 at 12:27 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: [...]

Wouldn't it make most sense to unify the two, so that the menu selectors are configurable in the normal key shortcut dialog?

The use of the alt key to navigate menus ties in to accessibility and to internationalization; the shortcuts do not.

An unfortunate side-effect of this is that the alt key mnemonics don't work if the menu bar is not shown, although that may provide an answer for the original poster - turn off the menu bar. You can still right-click to get to the menus.

Liam

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