Comment # 3 on bug 1193327 from Stefan Hundhammer

Confirmed: gnome-terminal behaves exactly the same.

It also has a tab menu, but here it's at the right end of the tab bar.

But in gnome-terminal, you can configure this:

Menu "Edit" -> "Preferences" -> "Shortcuts" under "Global";

Then select each one of "Switch to Tab 1", "... Tab 2" etc. and doubleclick it
to assign a new key combination, for example Shift-Alt-F1.

Once you have done that, the normal Alt-F1 becomes available again, it is
correctly sent to the application running in that terminal (or terminal tab),
e.g. YaST in the NCurses version, and you can use Alt-F1 to jump to "Name
Server 1".


Is that easy and convenient? No, unfortunately not. But it's a constant battle
between terminal emulators and NCurses applications which key combinations are
used for the terminal emulator itself and which ones for applications running
inside it.

Of course since the developers of those terminal emulators receive the key
combination first, they have the upper hand in deciding who gets it, leaving
the NCurses applications (like YaST) with the leftovers.