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how to disable Alt-to-menu shortcut?

Asked by Sergei Ivanov

When I press and release the Alt key in a KDE app, it usually switches to the menu bar.
I would like to disable this effect (so that a single Alt key is a no-op just like Ctrl and Shift).

As I see from Qt sources, this effect is optional and can be enabled or disabled
by the style plugin (more precisely, it is controlled by a "style hint" called
SH_MenuBar_AltKeyNavigation).

Some of the Qt styles (Motif, CDE) disable this option but I dislike them for other reasons.
The KDE styles (plastik etc) have this option enabled. Is there any way to change this?
If not, is it configurable in KDE4?

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Sergei Ivanov (svivanov) said : 		#1

I found an answer myself. The option can be turned off by adding the following line:
MenuAltKeyNavigation=false
to the file $HOME/.qt/kstylerc.
It seems that there is no GUI way.