Re: [Gwc-general] Question about shortcut keys

[John C. <ci...@pu...>]

Unfortunately I don't think KDE has a similar learning scheme.
Since I use KDE, I won't have this feature at my disposal. 
Actually I had thought it might be a built-in GWC hidden key but I 
guess not.

Thanks for the replies!

John


Jeff Welty wrote:
> I'll repost this informative email from Stewart Evens, describing how to 
> bind your own special keys to any menu function:
> -- 
> 
> 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
> 
> John Cirillo wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I seem to remember there might be some undocumented shortcut keys. 
>> What I am looking for is a shortcut key for the "Declick Strong" 
>> function.  I have discovered that I can get much better declick 
>> results on many songs by zooming the screen to show only about 15 
>> seconds of the song, declick, then click the right scrollbar to move 
>> ahead to the next 15 seconds and so on. But I get tired having to 
>> click right then move the mouse up to click on the Declick Strong 
>> button.  If there was a single key to hit for Strong Declick then I 
>> could get more done faster. Is there such a shortcut key? I'm using 
>> 0.19.3 still as it's stable and seems to do what I want.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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