gnome-terminal ALT-# tab switch

[Tristan Sloughter <kungfooguru gmail com>]

I hope this is the right place to send this. I need to find out how 
gnome-terminal gets around passing keys to Bash. I write a terminal 
Tilda that is also in gtk+ and uses vte. I want to be able to ahve 
Alt+1, Alt+2, ... switch between tilda's open tabs. This works fine 
except that once I switch to the other tab it goes into the bash 
readline numerical arguments passing option. Example: If I am in tab 2 
and hit Alt+1 it will move me to tab 1 and then print out (Arg : 1) in 
the Tab 1 terminal. Gnome-terminal only sends the Alt+# to Bash when 
there is not a tab #. How is this possible? I looked through the code 
used for the accelerators but found nothing that stuck out as causing 
this. I use:

goto_tab_closure_1 = g_cclosure_new_swap ((GCallback) goto_tab_1, tw, NULL);
gtk_accel_group_connect (accel_group, '1', GDK_MOD1_MASK, 
GTK_ACCEL_VISIBLE, goto_tab_closure_1);

for setting up an accel to catch Alt+1 and then go to the first tab.

Also, why did gnome-terminal decide to override a Bash feature?

Thanks,
Tristan Sloughter