I'm a little surprised at the differences in default key mappings in F3 as compared to RH9. Maybe it's just me, but my old key mappings are "implanted" and so automatic that's it's unpleasant to adjust. One thing I miss is the ability to make the default edits act like emacs. In particular, RH9 had an option on the keyboard shortcuts to select either "gnome defaults" or "emacs". When I selected "emacs", that affected mozilla/firefox, so that traditional shortcuts (like <ctrl>u deleting all text on the URL box or a text entry box) worked like the "old days". Is there another way to do this, or do I need to learn new shortcuts? TIA, Bill
==> Regarding [Wlug] key mapping on Fedora 3; Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> adds: bill> I'm a little surprised at the differences in default key mappings in bill> F3 as compared to RH9. Maybe it's just me, but my old key mappings bill> are "implanted" and so automatic that's it's unpleasant to adjust. bill> One thing I miss is the ability to make the default edits act like bill> emacs. In particular, RH9 had an option on the keyboard shortcuts to bill> select either "gnome defaults" or "emacs". When I selected "emacs", bill> that affected mozilla/firefox, so that traditional shortcuts (like bill> <ctrl>u deleting all text on the URL box or a text entry box) worked bill> like the "old days". bill> Is there another way to do this, or do I need to learn new shortcuts? Go to Application -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor Then desktop -> gnome -> interface and type in "Emacs" in the "gtk_key_theme" field. Alternatively: put this: gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" in your .gtkrc-2.0 file. -Jeff
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:55:44AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
==> Regarding [Wlug] key mapping on Fedora 3; Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> adds:
bill> I'm a little surprised at the differences in default key mappings in bill> F3 as compared to RH9. Maybe it's just me, but my old key mappings bill> are "implanted" and so automatic that's it's unpleasant to adjust.
bill> One thing I miss is the ability to make the default edits act like bill> emacs. In particular, RH9 had an option on the keyboard shortcuts to bill> select either "gnome defaults" or "emacs". When I selected "emacs", bill> that affected mozilla/firefox, so that traditional shortcuts (like bill> <ctrl>u deleting all text on the URL box or a text entry box) worked bill> like the "old days".
bill> Is there another way to do this, or do I need to learn new shortcuts?
Go to Application -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor
Then desktop -> gnome -> interface and type in "Emacs" in the "gtk_key_theme" field.
Alternatively:
put this: gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
in your .gtkrc-2.0 file.
-Jeff
Jeff, Worked great. How did you find this one? Thanks, Bill
==> Regarding Re: [Wlug] key mapping on Fedora 3; Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> adds: bill> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:55:44AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
==> Regarding [Wlug] key mapping on Fedora 3; Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> adds:
bill> I'm a little surprised at the differences in default key mappings in bill> F3 as compared to RH9. Maybe it's just me, but my old key mappings bill> are "implanted" and so automatic that's it's unpleasant to adjust.
bill> One thing I miss is the ability to make the default edits act like bill> emacs. In particular, RH9 had an option on the keyboard shortcuts to bill> select either "gnome defaults" or "emacs". When I selected "emacs", bill> that affected mozilla/firefox, so that traditional shortcuts (like bill> <ctrl>u deleting all text on the URL box or a text entry box) worked bill> like the "old days".
bill> Is there another way to do this, or do I need to learn new shortcuts?
Go to Application -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor
Then desktop -> gnome -> interface and type in "Emacs" in the "gtk_key_theme" field.
Alternatively:
put this: gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
in your .gtkrc-2.0 file.
-Jeff
bill> Jeff, bill> Worked great. How did you find this one? I don't use gnome. I happened to see some flamewar on this on an internal mailing list, so I just dug up the details. -Jeff
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