I have a very simple yet annoying problem: In the dropdown menus (File, Edit, etc.), there are no keyboard shortcuts displayed (e.g. Ctrl-Z for Undo). I have the shortcuts, but the menus won't tell me about them. And I can't seem to find anywhere where I can enable this.

I'm using Inkscape 0.48 on Ubuntu 12.04 (with that crap called Unity). I don't know if this is ubuntu-specific, but there are shortcuts displayed in Firefox and other programs.

Thanks for any help!

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It sounds like it could be a bug. But I haven't had any success searching Launchpad (bug tracker). Is "Ubuntu 12.04 (with that crap called Unity)" a very recent upgrade? If so, perhaps it just hasn't been reported yet.

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I don't know if this is ubuntu-specific, but there are shortcuts displayed in Firefox and other programs.

Are you saying that you expect keyboard shortcuts to be displayed in menus of all programs that you run on the Ubuntu system? Because of course, Inkscape can't run on Firefox, or any browser. Well, I think some people have made Inkscape to run in browsers through web-based apps. I don't know their names or URLs, but if that's where you see the problem, you'll need to contact support for that website.

I know that there is a relationship with Inkscape in Linux operating systems that does not exist with Windows or Macs, and perhaps that is partly expressed with keyboard shortcuts in all menus? But if you normally have shortcuts in all menus, but they're not showing up in Inkscape, then that would seem to me to be a bug in Inkscape. It's fairly common to have Inkscape bugs that are restricted to one particular operating system, to the exclusion of others.

I think you should wait for someone who is familiar with Linux/Ubuntu to comment on this, before filing a bug report (perhaps BobSongs or ~suv?). Because perhaps there might be some sort of Ubuntu settings you can adjust or something? But I'm leaning strongly towards bug.

Meanwhile, you could use Help menu > Keys and Mouse Ref. I know it's not the same, but at least you're not entirely in the dark

Seems to be related to the missing icons in the menus under Unity on Ubuntu:

• recent forum topic: Differences between using Inkscape as admin or as a normal u

which is tracked in

• Bug #775702 “Some menu icons missing in Inkscape since upgrade to 11.04”

(i.e. on all screenshots I have seen from users affected by the missing icons issue, the keyboard shortcuts had been missing too. AFAICT this is not an Inkscae bug, but introduced with some custom UI component installed with Ubuntu's Unity desktop).

Thanks for the replies and thanks for the welcome.
This reply is a little late -- just wanted to say that I got it fixed by disabling the socalled "appmenu" in Ubuntu/Unity. That's the Mac-style menu bar at the top of the screen -- when it's disabled it turns into "regular" menus in the actual Windows instead (M$ Windows- and Linux-style).