Re: [Gwc-general] Fix for Menu Accelerators

[Jeff W. <we...@ha...>]

Stewart,

Thanks for tracking this down!

jw

Stewart Evans wrote:

> I mentioned a while ago that the old Gnome style of changing menu  
> accelerators wasn't working in 0.20.  After some hunting, I've 
> figured  out how to fix it.
>
> First - version 2.0 of GTK has this option turned off by default.  
> Its  doc says to add the line "gtk_can_change_accels = 1" to your
> ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file.  Simple, right?
>
> But wait!  Gnome 2 doesn't pay attention to that file, apparently  
> because of its ludicrous "gconf" scheme.  So I had to run 
> gconf-editor  (which, on my RedHat system, can be found in the 
> oh-so-intuitive menu  location System Tools -> More System Tools -> 
> Configuration Editor).  Running it warns me that this is not the 
> preferred way of setting my  desktop, but since there's no indication 
> of what *is* the preferred  way, I went ahead anyway.
>
> Anyway, now I only had to navigate down to "desktop -> gnome ->  
> interface" and scroll down until I found the "can_change_accels" item.
>
> IMHO, the Gnome2 developers deserve congratulations for approaching  
> Microsoft's level of user hostility and disregard for backwards  
> compatibility.  But I digress...anyway, the above worked for me.   
> Unfortunately F1 does not seem to be allowed as an accelerator (other  
> fkeys are okay) so I will have to get used to a new key binding.
>
> -- Stewart
>
>
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