Keyboard shortcuts don't work

[msundman]

For the last several versions of avidemux the keyboard shortcuts haven't worked for me. They are shown in the menu, just nothing happens when I press a shortcut.

Currently running ubuntu 16.10 and avidemux 2.6.15-1~getdeb1. (The package description says it's the "QT4 version", but the dependencies are all qt5, so I assume it's in fact qt5.)

I've tried installing and uninstalling appmenu-qt and appmenu-qt5, and it seems to make no difference what so ever.

[msundman]

I've also tried the 161204_e6482ab459c deb available here on this forum (for 64bit ubuntu 16.04.1). It has the same problem (as well as others, such as not having any desktop menu items).

[Jan Gruuthuse]

check this out, perhaps this works for you to: QT5 shortcut not showing

[eumagga0x2a]

I've tried installing and uninstalling appmenu-qt and appmenu-qt5, and it seems to make no difference what so ever.

The buggy appmenu-* packages must be removed. If this is not sufficient, you should consider switching to a less broken desktop shell as unity. Avidemux keyboard accelerators and shortcuts work fine at least on gnome-shell, plasma, xfce and lxde.

(This is equally possible that the Avidemux build you are using is broken. You can easily build Avidemux from source yourself instead of relying on third parties)

[msundman]

It's a problem with redirected menus in QT5. A patch has been submitted and is awaiting integration.
Details: https://bugs.launchpad.net/appmenu-qt5/+bug/1380702

[Jan Gruuthuse]

reminder: appmenu-qt5 is still an issue (ubuntu 16.0.1 lts unity)