Unwanted behavior with menu item accelerators

[mulgund sandeep adlittle com]

Hello,

I'm experiencing something rather peculiar under GTK 1.2.8 in Linux.  I
have a pulldown menu in my application.  If I open the menu using the mouse
and position the mouse on one of the items in that menu, I have discovered
that by then entering a keystroke (e.g., ctrl-f), I can automagically
define a keyboard accelerator for that menu item!  This is entirely
unwanted.  How can I turn this behavior off?  It seems to be completely
undocumented.

Thanks,

Sandeep

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