Unity

F10 does not open the application's menu correctly

Bug #948519 reported by Bruno Girin on 2012-03-06

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

When pressing F10 in any application, the application's menu appears and the disappears as soon as the key is released.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Press F10 and keep it pressed
3. The application's menu appears in the top panel
4. Release F10
5. The application's menu disappears

Expected behaviour:
The application's menu should stay open after F10 is released to allow the user to navigate through the menu using the keyboard.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.4.0+bzr2054ubuntu0+654 [origin: LP-PPA-unity-team]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,move,vpswitch,snap,imgpng,gnomecompat,mousepoll,place,resize,grid,regex,session,wall,animation,workarounds,expo,fade,ezoom,scale,unityshell]
CrashDB: unity
Date: Tue Mar 6 22:34:34 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-11 (24 days ago)

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Bruno Girin (brunogirin) wrote on 2012-03-06:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (28.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote on 2012-03-09:

Umm, the shortcut to open the menu is Alt+F10, isn't it?

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2012-03-09

Changed in unity:
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	High → Medium

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2012-03-09

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Won't Fix
status:	Won't Fix → Confirmed

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote on 2012-03-09:

It changed to alt+f10, but even alt+f10 seems bugged right now (you need to release alt to get the menu visible).

Although some applications still react to f10 as the 'open menu shortcut' - and when they do, it still has the same problem as noted in this bug report.

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote on 2012-03-13:

Ok, as noted earlier - this shortcut is no longer valid (I noticed Firefox still uses it, but it's not by design). Please use Alt + F10 instead.
So I'm marking this bug as Invalid as well.