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[Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 728040 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728040

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 852834
   Gnome-terminal steals ALT key
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 728040
   Global Menu: Terminal: View->Show Menubar toggle makes no sense

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879207

Title:
  "Alt" key-press events are captured by Unity global menu, even after
  turning-off "Show Menubar".

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

Bug description:
  After turning-off "Show Menubar", key events with the "Alt" key
  pressed does not generate an Escape+Letter ASCII code on the TTY input
  stream. The "Alt" key-press event is still captured by the Unity
  global menu.

  To reproduce this issue:
  1. Open a new gnome-terminal running Bash or Emacs.
  2. Right-mouse-click the terminal window and un-check the menu option "Show Menubar"
  3. Type a few words separated by spaces.
  4. Press Ctrl-A to position the cursor at the beginning of the line.
  5. Press Alt-F to move the cursor forward one word -- THIS FAILS. Instead the File menu pops-up.

  Work-around:
  You must instead press "Esc" and then "F" to generate the Escape-F ASCII code. This makes using the terminal very difficult.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Oct 21 12:04:31 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (6 days ago)

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