Bug 984282 - Terminal menus no longer keyboard-accessible
Summary: Terminal menus no longer keyboard-accessible
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-14 12:48 UTC by Daniel
Modified: 2015-02-18 14:00 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-02-18 14:00:11 UTC
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Description Daniel 2013-07-14 12:48:13 UTC
Description of problem:
In Terminal, it is no longer possible to access the menus using the keyboard.  For example, in Fedora 18 I could press Alt+E to access the Edit menu and then press P to paste into Terminal. Now in Fedora 19, these no longer work and I have to go use the mouse.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 19


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch Terminal
2. press Alt+E
3.

Actual results:
gives an error sound


Expected results:
opens Edit menu


Additional info:

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2013-07-14 15:08:17 UTC
So, first: in Fedora 19 the Terminal package was renamed to xfce4-terminal. Are you using xfce4-terminal? Or do you somehow have an older release "Terminal" package installed?

Next, in preferences->advanced do you have either of the 'menubar access' items checked?

Finally, what theme are you using? If your gtk2 theme doesn't support it, you may not have the menu accelerators I think.

Comment 2 Daniel 2013-07-14 15:56:46 UTC
(In reply to Kevin Fenzi from comment #1)
> So, first: in Fedora 19 the Terminal package was renamed to xfce4-terminal.
> Are you using xfce4-terminal? Or do you somehow have an older release
> "Terminal" package installed?
> 
> Next, in preferences->advanced do you have either of the 'menubar access'
> items checked?
> 
> Finally, what theme are you using? If your gtk2 theme doesn't support it,
> you may not have the menu accelerators I think.

It just calls itself "Terminal" in the applications lists (both GNOME and Cinnamon) -- I'd assume it's the normal xfce4-terminal

Edit > Preferences > General: "Enable mnemonics" fixed the problem.

This should be the default setting, as it was in Fedora 18.  Those of us who are used to keyboard shortcuts/mnemonics/etc. won't think to go hunting around in menus to turn it on when it's pretty much universal across applications.

Comment 3 Kevin Fenzi 2013-07-14 16:16:30 UTC
What you have there is not xfce4-terminal, it's 'gnome-terminal' :)

Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2013-07-15 16:57:01 UTC
A terminal emulator is a very special application. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637530 for the upstream discussion of this change.

Comment 5 Tej Patil 2013-10-03 23:44:03 UTC
I had same issue and I was able to fix this as per Daniel's instructions. Thanks to Daniel.

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