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How to prevent Opera from showing opera menu on alt button press?

Opera version: 10.60_pre6351, amd64, Gentoo (Linux)

The menu that I am talking about is this:

Opera Menu

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How you get there: CTRL+F12 (or menu -> Settings -> Preferences)
Click Advanced tab, Shortcuts at the bottom (step 1 on pic);
Perform step 2 (click on edit on the shown part);
Type in: tab
Use the hit at the bottom..

(Okay forgot step 5: select it; step 6: click delete.)

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  • Reserving the slot, hmm? ;) Good in my opinion, prevents duplicates. – Gnoupi Jun 11 '10 at 16:09
  • Sorry I just wanted to take some time until the pro-paint picture is done. :-D (Don't know if one can do this, please say if its "illegal".) – Apache Jun 11 '10 at 16:11
  • I have deleted all keyboard shortcuts that I do not use. And this is definitely not related to «Address Dropdown widget». – ZyX Jun 11 '10 at 16:13
  • However, I've tried that on mine, it still shows the menu on Alt. – Gnoupi Jun 11 '10 at 16:13
  • Hmm I fear this one is a global shortcut (IE it works everywhere like in explorer (I'm on Win) and *maybe* it cannot be changed.) – Apache Jun 11 '10 at 16:21
  • Removed *ALL* the shortcuts from the options, everywhere, and it still works. Sorry that I wasn't much help. – Apache Jun 11 '10 at 16:28
  • I have tried to search in `opera:config` for keywords «menu», «alt», «meta» and some more, but it found nothing useful. Thought someone on superuser knows how is this option named. – ZyX Jun 11 '10 at 16:30
  • @Shiki defining global shortcuts that are respected by all applications is not possible. Focusing menu using alt is just a convention respected by most Windows and some Linux GUI application developers. Sometimes this functionality is forced by the graphical toolkit, but not in case of new Opera, that uses its own GUI library. – ZyX Jun 11 '10 at 16:38
  • If its possible to adjust. Check out forums (maybe you'll get an answer there faster): http://my.opera.com/community/forums/ – Apache Jun 11 '10 at 16:38
  • Just ended pasting this question to that forum. – ZyX Jun 11 '10 at 16:41
  • Yeah yeah I see the question. Wondering how could one solve this.. – Apache Jun 11 '10 at 16:49
  • @Shiki - this is a global shortcut for the menus, yes. Normally (for example if you check show menu), it will highlight the "File" menu (and show shortcuts for other menus). However, this is something for sure made on the application side, this behavior, nothing forces Opera to behave this way, it's only a norm. However, I can't find as well a way to change this behavior. – Gnoupi Jun 11 '10 at 17:15