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by riobard 5949 days ago
I don't use menus often, either. I guess this design really forces app developers to carefully choose buttons and other widgets on the UI to avoid menu as much as possible.

But on the occasions when menu is required, the experience sucks big on my dual-monitor setting. And there is no keyboard shortcut to ease the pain.

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Use control+F2 to focus on the menu bar. :)
Yeah I know that trick ... but it's not quite the same as ALT+(underlined character of the menu item) thing on other systems. For fast typists, it's pretty awkward to hit the  first and then use arrow keys to move around. I wanna go directly to "File" menu by hitting SUPER+F, for example :|
Well you can hit control+f2 and then hit F for file. :)
Yes I could do that ... but I left the F1-12 keys on my MacBook to its default, which controls dim the screen, volume and stuff like that. So to press CTRL+F2 I actually have to press FN+CTRL+F2. Try this combination on a MacBook (with only the left CTRL) and see how awkward it feels ... It completely screws the experience of "shortcuts".