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I'm using gnome-terminal and I need to free all the F keys because I need to remap them to something else inside vim, how I can do that?

I'm running Ubuntu 13.04.

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  • @don_crissti from F5 to F12 prints a tilde ~ under my Ubuntu, except F11 that goes fullscreen and F10 that opens the gnome-terminal menu. F1 opens the online help, from F2 to F4 are already free apparently.
    – user2384250
    May 28, 2013 at 18:09

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Unless you want to modify the sources, no you can't. The F1 is hard set to help pages for most (if not all applications), F10 can be disabled but you will still get the ~ in the underlying shell. This is observable on the TTY, also.

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    not directed at you (not your fault), but "you can't" is never an acceptable answer for all algorithms in P.
    – Michael
    Apr 8, 2015 at 0:58
  • @Michael I'm not sure what you are trying to convey.
    – Braiam
    Apr 8, 2015 at 2:51
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    Oh, just expressing my annoyance (frustration?) at a too common phenomena of wanting to do something but it isn't possible for no good reason other than "we didn't do in a way that supports that".
    – Michael
    Apr 8, 2015 at 5:48
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It is not hardcoded (though some of the programs you run inside the terminal may be).

Checking Ubuntu 13.04, its version of gnome-terminal is 3.61, which supports the dialog for modifying keyboard shortcuts:

  • You reach that by going to the Edit menu, and selecting "Keyboard Shortcuts...".
  • In the dialog, you can modify any entry by clicking on it (on the right, where the column header says Shortcut key).
  • After clicking, the text is temporarily replaced with New accelerator.
  • Type the key that you would like that function to be reassigned to.
  • Repeat this for all of the keys you want to modify.
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