| gordonjcp | hello | 15:29 |
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| gordonjcp | is there a way in Mate to set a keyboard shortcut for the main menu, like when you click on "Menu" at the top left? | 15:30 |
| m4t | gordonjcp: it's alt-f1 by default | 15:40 |
| m4t | Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Show the panel's main menu | 15:40 |
| m4t | may depend on which menu you're using though. i'm using the old style one | 15:41 |
| gordonjcp | m4t: no, that does something completely different | 15:52 |
| gordonjcp | that looks like a context menu | 15:52 |
| m4t | works for me. | 15:52 |
| gordonjcp | okay, let me get a screenshot to show you what I mean | 15:53 |
| m4t | did you check keyboard shortcuts? | 15:53 |
| gordonjcp | yes | 15:53 |
| gordonjcp | that says "main menu", but it doesn't look like the menu you get when you click on the "Menu" icon at the top | 15:54 |
| m4t | ya you must be using a new menu applet | 15:54 |
| gordonjcp | this is in Ubuntu 22.04 | 15:54 |
| gordonjcp | so possibly | 15:54 |
| gordonjcp | hm, having the menu up prevents PrtScr from working, that's a bit hilarious | 15:55 |
| sixwheeledbeast | It's Alt+F1 for me too | 15:58 |
| gordonjcp | I'll have to take photographs of the screen, like it was the 90s | 16:00 |
| gordonjcp | sixwheeledbeast: what does Alt-F1 pop up for you? | 16:01 |
| sixwheeledbeast | I use Traditional Layout so the Application Menu. | 16:02 |
| gordonjcp | hm, that doesn't really tell me a lot | 16:04 |
| gordonjcp | right | 16:10 |
| gordonjcp | when I press alt-f1 I get https://gjcp.net/altf1.jpg but what I would like to get is https://gjcp.net/mainmenu.jpg | 16:11 |
| gordonjcp | does that make any sense? | 16:11 |
| sixwheeledbeast | I get a variation of the first image, the other newer menu may have some other name. | 16:17 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Alt-F1 being that menu isn't wrong (it's what i want for my layout), but isn't logical for that newer layout I suppose. | 16:22 |
| sixwheeledbeast | It maybe something you can set/change with dconf but I wouldn't know where exactly. | 16:25 |
| gordonjcp | :-/ | 16:28 |
| gordonjcp | any idea what it would be called? | 16:32 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Does Super Key on it's own not work? | 16:40 |
| gordonjcp | is that the "flag" key? | 16:41 |
| sixwheeledbeast | I think they switched to the Brisk Menu which i am not fond of. So I have the Traditional Layout and Classic Menu. | 16:41 |
| gordonjcp | don't know, don't have one on this compact keyboard, let me dig a USB keyboard out and try it | 16:41 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Like the "Windows" key | 16:41 |
| gordonjcp | not sure what that is | 16:42 |
| gordonjcp | the one with the little flag on? | 16:42 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Brisk was used to provide Super key support | 16:42 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Between Ctrl and Alt | 16:42 |
| gordonjcp | yeah | 16:42 |
| sixwheeledbeast | That should bring up the Brisk Menu if you have a layout with the Brisk menu | 16:43 |
| sixwheeledbeast | If not I have no idea. | 16:43 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Maybe some other shortcut has collided with it if you changed them | 16:44 |
| gordonjcp | no, this is just default | 16:45 |
| gordonjcp | it worked before in 20.04, but I don't know what I did for that | 16:45 |
| sixwheeledbeast | The idea was that Super Key would open the brisk menu with the search box in famillar layout. I much prefer the Classic Alt-F1 and Alt-F2 from gnome 2. | 16:45 |
| sixwheeledbeast | the super key worked or Alt-F2? | 16:45 |
| gordonjcp | alt-f1 | 16:45 |
| gordonjcp | alt-f2 has always popped up a "run command" box | 16:46 |
| gordonjcp | I don't see why alt-f1 is useful | 16:46 |
| gordonjcp | you still need to pick up the mouse to use the menu | 16:46 |
| sixwheeledbeast | You are opening the menu to select with arrow keys. I use both. | 16:46 |
| gordonjcp | yeah, I see that the arrow keys work now, but that's even more annoying | 16:47 |
| sixwheeledbeast | I have used those two for over a decade so used to them. | 16:47 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Not sure i don't have 22.04 or that layout to try and help. | 16:48 |
| gordonjcp | no worries :-) | 16:48 |
| gordonjcp | yeah I absolutely hated the way the menus worked in Gnome 1 | 16:48 |
| gordonjcp | Gnome 2 was such an improvement | 16:48 |
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