Why does F10 in gnome-terminal open the right-click menu?

I am running Fedora 17 gnome (shell) 3 and gnome terminal 3.4.1.1.

I am a user of both gnome-terminal and midnight commander. As default gnome-terminal has always used F10 (which I need while using mc), to opening the top menu. So was this time. I was able to disable that behaviour in the settings, as always.

Which is new to me, is that after I disabled the setting, it started opening the “right-click menu” at the mouse cursor when I press F10. The key goes to mc too, but it is annoying to have to always close the menu.

I assume it is caused by gnome terminal, as it does not happen in other apps. Is this a “feature” or bug, has anyone else encountered the same problem and how to fix it?

Answers:

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Method 1

It’s a feature. Go to Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts

And uncheck “Enable the menu shortcut key”

to turn it off.

Method 2

Here is a simple solution for the problem described:

For GTK 3 apps like gnome-terminal and nautilus just create (or edit if you have one) the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css with following content:

$ cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
@binding-set NoKeyboardNavigation {
unbind "F10"
}

* {
gtk-key-bindings: NoKeyboardNavigation
}

Method 3

For Fedora 17 you can find the bug report here

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800856

The workaround there is, create ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file with following content:

@binding-set NoKeyboardNavigation {
    unbind "<shift>F10"
}

* {
    gtk-key-bindings: NoKeyboardNavigation
}

Method 4

I fixed this on Ubuntu by making a new ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and putting this in it:

@binding-set NoKeyboardNavigation {
    unbind "<shift>F10"
}

* {
    gtk-key-bindings: NoKeyboardNavigation
}

Method 5

in centos, rhel, oracle linux

Go to Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts
And uncheck “Enable the menu shortcut key”
to turn it off.

Method 6

The best way I found in gnome 4 on a Fedora 35 to disable F10 shortcut :

gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Settings menu-accelerator-enabled false

Hope it helps 🙂

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