Re: Accelerator keys in Dia 0.92.2

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 00:16, Justin Gombos wrote:
> I have not been able to get the accelerator keys to work.  I could not
> find instructions in the manual, and only know about the accelerator
> keys from the faq, which says to simply highlight the option in the
> menu, and press the key combination.
> 
> I tried highlighting Objects :: Group, and I pressed control-D
> (since control-d doesn't work for delete, I figure it's not mapped).
> That did not work.  I also tried alt-d, control-1, alt-1, and none of
> them work.  
> 
> How do I know whether I'm trying to assign a key combination that is
> either already taken, or invalid?  Is there a list of claimed and
> unclaimed hotkeys published somewhere?

It's not a question of what's taken.  That behaviour is turned off by
default in Gtk2.  You'll need to set the gconf entry desktop / gnome /
interface / can_change_accels (or in old versions of Gtk2, set
gtk-can-change-accels=1 in ~/.gtkrc-2.0).

-Lars