GTK+ 2.8.0 released [LWN.net]

GTK+ 2.8.0 released

Posted Aug 14, 2005 22:16 UTC (Sun) by segphault (guest, #27468)
In reply to: GTK+ 2.8.0 released by Zarathustra
Parent article: GTK+ 2.8.0 released

thus spake Zarathustra:
"And no, don't tell me to change the configuration to use emacs keybindings, I don't want emacs keybindings"

I do want emacs bindings, but for some reason, on my system, setting emacs key bindings in gconf editor doesn't seem to affect any program other than firefox. In gaim, for instance, I still regularly close windows by accident with ^w. Anybody know why? Shouldn't all GTK text input widgets be affected by the change?

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GTK+ 2.8.0 released

Posted Aug 14, 2005 23:53 UTC (Sun) by segphault (guest, #27468) [Link]

I just figured out the answer to my own question. Gaim does this because it's got a ^w accelerator on the 'close' menu item. I use can_change_accels to switch to ^esc, and now ^w deletes a word rather than closing the window. Shortcut to close a window should be a universal, window manager thing rather than something hard-coded in the program.