gtk+ hiding menubar disables all keyboard shortcuts

Question

I want to hide the menubar in my gtk+ text editor. Thought that would be a simple matter of gtk_widget_hide(menubar), but when I do that I loose all keyboard shortcuts. How do you hide the menubar and keep the accelerator functionality?

Answer 1

Hidden widgets do not respond to key events afaik.

A possible solution is to install a AcceleratorGroup for your whole application instead.

You could also try to hide all items of the menu-bar (untested).