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I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 w/ Openbox 3.6.1. When I press Alt, some applications shows their menu. How I can disable this behavior, so Alt won't do anything?

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  • @DKBose Firefox-based (Firefox itself, Komodo, etc.) – Defman May 05 '16 at 14:50
  • I'm using my own keybindings for everything and I don't use window's menu bar a lot. More over, I just want to make Alt don't do anything, but I would still assign another key (Super_R for example) to open the menu bar of any application. – Defman May 05 '16 at 15:19
  • @DKBose I dunno. It's something that I was able to do in Unity but not in Openbox. – Defman May 05 '16 at 15:41
  • Thought there's a setting for that. – Defman May 05 '16 at 15:42
  • I don't think it has anything to do with Openbox, but everything to do with GTK. Supposedly, you add gtk-enable-mnemonics=0 to your settings.ini or your gtkrc, but this hasn't worked for me. I'll try one more thing and let you know if it worked. – Samuel Feb 21 '17 at 07:20

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Supposedly this can be disabled by changing a setting in the gtkrc or settings.ini files, for GTK 2 and 3 respectively. The option is gtk-enable-mnemonics, it has been deprecated, but the documentation states it still should be possible to use it. gtk-enable-mnemonics documentation entry

However, it really was removed from GTK, as this other answer states, you can view the commit's diff here.

There's a bug report for it in Nautilus' launchpad, so maybe Ubuntu will make a patch one day, although I doubt it.

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