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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?

Jjed
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Chris
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  • In Natty Narwhal I used this information: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7483418 In Oneiric Ocelot this doesn't work. – Chris Nov 06 '11 at 19:28
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4 Answers4

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To "disable" mnemonics for Nautilus 3.10.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 which uses GTK3:

  1. Create the following path & file if it doesn't already exist.
    /home/YOURUSERNAME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
  2. Then add:
    [Settings]
    gtk-enable-mnemonics = 0
  3. 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.

Elijah Lynn
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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.

Timo
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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.

Eliah Kagan
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Kristiyan
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add

gtk-auto-mnemonics = 1

in your theme settings: /usr/share/themes/YOUR_THEME_NAME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

kholis
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    Editing an installed theme from /usr/share/themes is a BAD idea - as changes will be overwritten when new package is installed – Vadim Rutkovsky Feb 07 '12 at 04:51