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[Uwe Stuehler <868152@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I overlooked the "Enable Menu Access Shortcuts" setting in the "Keyboard
Shortcuts" dialog. Now that I found it, it does seem to work (for me)
and is remembered across terminal sessions. I was used to using the
"Show Menubar" option to control this behavior, however.

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Title:
  Enable Menu Access Keys was switched back on without my request

Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Somehow in the last update (as of ~08:30 BST) my gnome terminal re-
  acquired the "Enable Menu Access Keys (Such as Alt+F to open the File
  menu)" option.  I had to hunt around for a while to figure out how to
  shut it off again.  This is a nasty surprise, as well as a terrible
  default: terminals are meant to send your keystrokes to remote
  applications, and gobbling them up locally is unhelpful.

  For example, Alt+F is actually "move forward by word" in any terminal
  application using GNU Readline, as well as in Emacs and possibly nano.
  It is expected by users that alt+key combinations will be sent to the
  terminal-using application in some form.

  As an aside, this kind of bug is why I gave up on using Emacs nearly
  20 years ago: one of the terminals I had access to ate ^S locally for
  terminal flow control, so the command combination to save a buffer
  locked up my session and lost my work.  I lost three important edit
  sessions before giving in and permanently switching to vi.  This kind
  of behavior can be disastrous for people!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct  5 08:53:09 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ProcEnviron:
   LC_COLLATE=C
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-04 (0 days ago)

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