type="guide"

      id="pref-keyboard-access">

  <info>

    <revision version="0.1" date="2013-02-25" status="candidate"/>

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    <link type="guide" xref="pref#global"/>

    <link type="seealso" xref="pref-menubar"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

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      <email>sindhus@live.in</email>

      <years>2013</years>

    </credit>

    <credit type="copyright editor">

      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>

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      <name>Michael Hill</name>

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    <desc>Navigate around <app>Terminal</app> menus using keyboard keys.</desc>

  </info>

  <title>Keyboard accessibility</title>

  <note style="important">

    
These keys will only have an effect in windows in which the menubar is

    set to be visible.

  </note>

  
You can navigate the <app>Terminal</app> menu using a combination of keys

  that are called mnemonics or a special key that takes you directly

  to the first menu in the menubar which is called the menu accelerator

  key.

  <section id="mnemonics">

    <title>Mnemonics</title>

    
<app>Terminal</app> menu can be accessed by combining the <key>Alt</key>

    key and a letter of the menu item. The letter that you need to use to

    access the menu will be underlined when you hold down the

    <key>Alt</key>.

    
For example, view the <gui style="menu">Edit</gui> menu using

    <keyseq><key>Alt</key><key>E</key></keyseq>. Similarly, you can access

    <gui style="menu">File</gui> menu using

    <keyseq><key>Alt</key><key>F</key></keyseq>.

    
To enable mnemonics:

    <steps>

      <item>

        
Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui> <gui style="menuitem">

        Preferences</gui> <gui style="tab">General</gui></guiseq>.

      </item>

      <item>

        
Check <gui style="checkbox">Enable mnemonics</gui>.

      </item>

    </steps>

  </section>

  <section id="menu-accelerator">

    <title>Menu accelerator key</title>

    
This setting brings up the <gui style="menu">File</gui> menu when the menu

    accelerator key is pressed. This key is usually <key>F10</key> by

    default.

    <steps>

      <item>

        
Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>

	<gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>

	<gui style="tab">General</gui></guiseq>.

      </item>

      <item>

        
Check <gui style="checkbox">Enable the menu accelerator

        key</gui>.

      </item>

    </steps>

  </section>

</page>