How do I disable the F10 (application menu) keybinding in Ubuntu 11.10? [duplicate]

11.04

Disabling the F1 shortcut

1. In a gnome-terminal open up Edit ➜ Keyboard Shortcuts.

2. Scroll down to the Help/Contents shortcut, click where it says "F1" and hit Backspace:

   

Disabling the F10 shortcut

1. Install the compizconfig-settings-manager package.

   • Warning: What are some of the issues with CCSM and why would I want to avoid it?

2. Open up CompizConfig Settings Manager.

   • Hit Super to open the Dash, type "Compiz" and hit Enter.

3. Type "unity" in the Filter entry and select the Ubuntu Unity Plugin.

4. Click the button to the right of Key to open the first panel menu and uncheck the Enabled checkbox.

   

5. That disabled the global F10 shortcut, now disable gnome-terminal's F10 shortcut:

   • In a gnome-terminal open up Keyboards Shortcuts (Edit ➜ Keyboard Shortcuts) and
     uncheck Enable the menu shortcut key (F10 by default)

     

6. F10 is mapped to menubar_accel by something in Ubuntu. Gnome? Metacity? Not sure what exact thing it is that steals it, but the key doesn't make it to Eclipse.

   • Run gconf-editor, browse to /desktop/gnome/interface then scroll down to menubar_accel and delete the F10 value. [Stolen from here]

Disable F10 in gnome-terminal in 12.04

Type this in the console:

mkdir -p ~/.config/gtk-3.0
cat<<EOF > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

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

* {
     gtk-key-bindings: NoKeyboardNavigation
}

EOF

Then close all terminal sessions. Now it should work as it should (in mc for example).

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/726639/comments/18
• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1017546#p1017546

start gconf-editor and follow /apps/gnome-terminal/keybindings/help

Description:

"Keyboard shortcut key for launching help. Expressed as a string in the same format used for GTK+ resource files. If you set the option to the special string "disabled", then there will be no keyboard shortcut for this action."

I am new to Linux and this F10 key drives me crazy. All above tricks didn't work, but I found now a solution (for Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3 classic desktop). In a terminal, enter the following command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface menubar-accel ""

With dconf-editor it can be found that the F10 is really gone. Note that these kind of tricks seem to be highly Gnome / Ubuntu version dependent.

For exiting mc (with F10 key). Disable "Key to open the first panel menu" in unity compiz plugin (ccsm)