Pass F10 to the application in Gnome-terminal

Question

I'm running old Debian machine: Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2 (lenny) Release: 5.0.2 Codename: lenny

I open terminal and run Midnight Commander in it. Now I need to quit by pressing F10. But When I do this I'm getting terminal menu:

How to get MC menu and not terminal one by pressing F10?

Solution 1

Go to Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts

And uncheck "Enable the menu shortcut key"

to turn it off.

Reference link : here.

Solution 2

On Ubuntu 20.04.1, Gnome version 3.36.8 it is:

Gnome terminal's "hamburger menu icon"
  > Preferences
    > "General" tab
      > Uncheck the item labeled "Enable the menu accelerator key (F10 by default)"

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Just a remark: on the same system, a dconf / gsettings setting exists:

/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/ shortcuts-enabled

Its default value is true. Currently it does not seem to impact / conflict with the choice made in the terminal preferences UI. Nevertheless I believe it may be useful to remain mindful of its existence... Just in case one day it may start to interfere again ;)

Solution 3

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 :)

Comments

[Greenonline]

Does this answer your question? Why does F10 in gnome-terminal open the right-click menu?. It seems to be generating duplicate answers.

[vic-3]

Ubuntu 18.04 edit->preferences->general (uncheck) enable the menu accelerator key (F10 by default)

[John Greene]

Now F10 no longer works in allow application to receive that F10 keystroke value. Debian 11, Gnome-Terminal 3.30.2