Neither of these answered my question:
How do I disable the F10 (application menu) keybinding in Ubuntu 11.10?
How do I deactivate F1 and F10 keybindings in gnome-terminal?
The instructions in that thread seem to be specific to Gnome or compizconfig-settings-manager. That application looks a bit dangerous so I'm wondering if there's a way to do this without it. There's a keyboard shortcuts dialog but I couldn't find F10 in there.
This shortcut is colliding with a shortcut in Chrome that is used for debugging. It's pretty annoying that Ubuntu would assume no applications would be using the F10 key. I use at least 3 applications that need that key frequently.
I'm using ubuntu 11.10
Best Answer
CCSM is mostly a GUI front-end which writes its values to the gconf database.
You can use
gconf-editor
to edit the compiz unity plugin options:As you can see in the image - the F10 key is associated with the panel option located in the gconf path
/apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/panel_first_menu
Thus you can change this to another key value - or write the value
Disabled
to disable the F10 key altogether.If you want to reassign the key, you can use the modifiers in combination to perform multikey shortcuts:
<super>
for the WIN key<alt>
for the ALT key<shift>
for the SHIFT keyFor some options you need to logout and login for the changes to take effect.
If you want to reassign/disable from the command line you can use the syntax: