You can stop gnome-terminal from trapping Alt for the menus in Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts.
I'm not closing this as the menubar not being technically disablable is perhaps a bug (though, really, just a minor cosmetic inconvenience), I'll leave that to the desktop team. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993973 Title: In Unity, the "Show Menubar" item in the contextual menu is useless and the Menubar hijacks shortcuts from the shell To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/993973/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs