Keyboard access to me menu in Unity? -- lacks front-to-back cycling

[Jason Todd]

Yes, this is exactly what I'm experiencing. Maybe a bug?

> From: eapache at gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:22:54 -0400
> Subject: Re: Keyboard access to me menu in Unity? -- lacks front-to-back cycling
> To: jtodd929 at hotmail.com; ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> Did a little more testing: even stranger. If I have a truly menuless
> app open (like Update Manager), then F10 does focus the first
> indicator as you mentioned, Jason. In that case I have right-to-left
> wrapping, but not left-to-right wrapping.
> 
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Evan Huus <eapache at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Jason Todd <jtodd929 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm basing this on use of the Beta 2 Live CD (no install). Maybe this could
> >> be explaining the difference?
> >
> > Possibly. I upgraded via beta 2 though, and I've only installed one
> > round of updates since.
> >
> >>> From: eapache at gmail.com
> >>> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:47:58 -0400
> >>> Subject: Re: Keyboard access to me menu in Unity? -- lacks front-to-back
> >>> cycling
> >>> To: jtodd929 at hotmail.com
> >>> CC: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Jason Todd <jtodd929 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > The other issue I'm facing when accessing Session-Menu is that the arrow
> >>> > keys don't cycle front-to-back/back-to-front when scrolling the panel
> >>> > indicators in Beta 2.
> >>>
> >>> I'm actually able to do this just fine. One tap left and I wrap
> >>> around. That's odd.
> >>>
> >>> > For example, if I have no apps open (and then no global menus present)
> >>> > and I
> >>> > press F10 the highlight appears on the first indicator menu.
> >>>
> >>> Another difference with my machine: If I have no apps open, the global
> >>> menu for nautilus shows up (since presumably the desktop is nautilus,
> >>> and it has focus). Again, odd.
> >>>
> >>> One of our machines seems to be behaving oddly. I'm guessing it's mine
> >>> (it's an upgrade from maverick from lucid), but either way it would be
> >>> nice to know the intended behavior here.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Evan
> >>>
> >>> > If I press the
> >>> > left arrow key (with the intention of cycling to the Session-Menu)
> >>> > nothing
> >>> > happens. If I press the right-arrow key then I can cycle through the
> >>> > menus,
> >>> > but I have to go through each indicator menu which involves much
> >>> > tapping. I
> >>> > would be so much faster to be able to tap the right-arrow key and land
> >>> > directly on the session-menu.
> >>> >
> >>> >> From: eapache at gmail.com
> >>> >> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:03:23 -0400
> >>> >> Subject: Keyboard access to me menu in Unity?
> >>> >> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> >>> >>
> >>> >> In past versions of Ubuntu, Super-S would select the me menu so that
> >>> >> you could access it without a mouse. In unity, this combo is used for
> >>> >> the expo plugin, and I cannot find the combo that replaced it.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> I have found
> >>> >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/unity-keyboard-mouse-shortcuts
> >>> >> which is fairly comprehensive, but doesn't list a combo for this.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Is this a bug I should file, or is there already a new shortcut that
> >>> >> I'm just missing?
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Thanks,
> >>> >> Evan
> >>> >>
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