Xubuntu 12.04 (Precise) I assigned Alt-v as a shortcut key for the Paste action, and that's what's shown in the preferences window, as well as the terminalrc file. But in reality, the application is using Ctrl-V as the shortcut, and that's what's shown in the Edit menu. Turning off the menubar or disabling menu access keys does not help.
That is not a valid keycombo, you have to life with that.
Nic, would you mind explaining what you mean by "not a valid keycombo"? Technically, it should be possible to use Alt-V shortcut in a GTK application. Gnome Terminal handles it just fine, if the menubar is hidden -- otherwise, it serves as the accelerator to the View menu. Can the Terminal do the same?
See Gnome Bugzilla report for a similar issue several years ago with Gnome Terminal: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552318
We set the accelerators by hovering the menu items these days, but even with mnemonics disabled this does not seem to work (setting the shortcut). If you manually set it in the accelerators file is does work fine tho.
Closing old bugs.