How do I disable mnemonics in GTK3?
In Natty Narwhal I used to do some nifty tricks with .gtkrc-2.0 to disable mnemonics (underlined menus) but now it's impossible. I assume in Oneiric Ocelot it will be something different because it uses GTK3.
I used to achieve this by adding the following lines:
gtk-enable-accels = 0
gtk-enable-mnemonics = 0
How can I get rid of the mnemonics in Oneiric Ocelot?
Solution 1:
To "disable" mnemonics for Nautilus 3.10.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 which uses GTK3:
- Create the following path & file if it doesn't already exist.
/home/YOURUSERNAME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini - Then add:
[Settings]gtk-enable-mnemonics = 0 - Then logout and log back in.
Sources:
* https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2011-March/msg00108.html
* https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html
p.s. Note that the GTK docs say you should have an environment variable called XDG_CONFIG_HOME but I didn't have one. I did have an existing ~/.config/gtk-3.0 folder and it appears it is looking there by default, without the environment variable.
Solution 2:
GTK3 doesn't use gtkrc anymore, but moved to styling with CSS. But there still is a way to change global settings. Quoting from the GTK reference:
GTK+ reads default values for settings from settings.ini files in /etc/gtk-3.0 and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0.
See that page for some more details.
I wonder if this works in Unity though, with the global menu. I don't know if these settings are adapted by it.
Solution 3:
After so long time and no answer found on my question I found it!
To hide mnemonics (keyboard accelerators) in GTK 3.x you just need to open:
/usr/share/themes/THEME_NAME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
Add the following line:
gtk-enable-mnemonics = 0
And save the file. Log out or change your theme with another one then change it back. That's all. Nothing hard to do, only little research.
PS: Of course after update of ubuntu-light-themes package this will be lost and need to be redone again.