Selecting a menu item with keyboard accelerators

[j.romildo at gmail.com]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 04:07:39PM +0200, Stefan Stuhr wrote:
> fre, 29 05 2009 kl. 08:18 -0300, skrev j.romildo at gmail.com:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > One feature I am missing in XFCE is the possibility of selecting a menu
> > item with keyboard accelerators. It makes menu usage much faster when
> > using the keyboard.
> > 
> > Each menu item would have an accelerator key, and just typing the
> > accelerator when the menu is open selects that item, or at least gives
> > focus to it.
> > 
> > Most window managers I have used offers this feature. Is it really not
> > available in XFCE, or am I missing somthing here?
> 
> Are you refering to a specific menu, perhaps the (desktop) applications
> menu?

Specifically, the Xfce Menu (that is, the panel menu) seems to have no
accelerator for their items.

The desktop menu (accessible by clicking with mouse-button-2 (right
button) on the default configuration) has accelerator for its items. But
its submenu "Applications" (which is the same Xfce Menu i mentioned in
the previous paragraph) has no accelerators for its items.

Clearly Xfce supports accelerators for menu items, but they are missing
for the Xfce Menu. Is it a misconfiguratoin of my system, or isn't there
no such accelerators in fact?

Regards,

Romildo