Menu accelerators for Gnome 3 windows

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In most window managers, pressing alt+space brings up the window context menu. Often the context menu items are navigable using home/end, pgup/pgdn, and menu accelerators (so, say alt+space, c, or alt+space, pgdn might close the window)

In Gnome 3, you can still open the window menu with alt+space, but the navigation keys do nothing, and there don't appear to be any menu accelerators.

How do you add back in these menu accelerators?

If not, are there any other window managers that are comparable in features that have menu accelerators?

enthdegree

Posted 10 years ago

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2https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733297 – Michael Mrozek – 9 years ago

Also take a look at this great askubuntu answers.

– Pablo A – 8 years ago

1The discussion on the gnome.org bugzilla is amazing: how pervasive/basic does a feature need to be to not be controversial?! Would comment there, but don't remember my username on gnome.org and apparently, there is no way to find out what it was...well done there! – Tomislav Nakic-Alfirevic – 6 years ago

It's absurd. 4 years later and this is STILL irritating me daily. – enthdegree – 6 years ago

Answers

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I've just tested GNOME 3.18 and up/down arrow keys work fine in this version. Though GNOME has always had dedicated shortcut keys for all such operations, such as AltF7 to begin moving the window:

user1686

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