Gnome Terminal Alt+# Tab Switching

[Tristan Sloughter <kungfooguru gmail com>]

I wrote this to the gnome desktop devel mailing list and got no 
response. So, I thought I'd try here:

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