I use GNOME Shell 41.4, Alt+F1 opens “Applications” menu. I couldn’t find this shortcut in Keyboard Shortcuts UI, eventually I found dconf-editor path /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/panel-main-menu where it was set to Alt+F1 but it’s marked as DEPRECATED and indeed, clearing it there has no effect, Alt+F1 still opens “Applications” menu.
I eventually found dconf-editor path /org/gnome/shell/extensions/apps-menu/apps-menu-toggle-menu with ['<Alt>F1'] and clearing it did the trick.
Similarly gsettings works:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.apps-menu apps-menu-toggle-menu "[]"
I spent total about one hour trying to figure out how to disable Alt+F1 shortcut in GNOME, because shortcut is not surfaced in normal Keyboard Shortcuts UI and because Google points to panel-main-menu which is still there, still defaults to Alt+F1 but is now deprecated (doesn’t say deprecated by what) and clearing panel-main-menu has no effect.
Is it possible to surface Alt+F1 in Keyboard Shortcuts UI?
Is it possible to mention /org/gnome/shell/extensions/apps-menu/apps-menu-toggle-menu in the panel-main-menu DEPRECATED message?
Since it is an extension setting, there are a lot of ways to go about it.
If you do not need the applications menu, just disable the extension.
If you do need the extension, just open the Extensions app and click on the gear icon right next to ‘Applications Menu’ extension. There should be an option to change or disable the shortcut.
No. Settings picks up shortcuts from a system directory (/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings), while extensions are generally installed inside the user’s home (and contained in a single directory).
documenting possible conflicts introduced by extensions in affected keybinding schemas doesn’t scale well
I don’t see how it’s helpful for anyone but a handful of users; for starters, you have to know that alt+f1 used to be the default for panel-main-menu, and that the key is part of the org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings schema … and then it has to occur to you to look at that schema in the editor
FWIW, there has been some talk recently about the need of a new D-Bus API for resolving shortcut conflicts. Right now conflicts are detected/resolved by Settings, based on the list of shortcuts that is actually exposed in Settings.
When that API is added and Settings’ conflict resolution starts to make use of it, it will cover all global shortcuts (whether or not they are listed in the keybindings panel, and including shortcuts grabbed by extensions).
IMHO that’ll be a much better fix than changing a key description that most users will never get to see.
