Re: Hotkey for Send Backwards/Bring Forwards

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb nyu edu>]

At Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:06:41 +0100 Lars Ræder Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 09:16 +0100, Günter Dannoritzer wrote:
>> Lars Ræder Clausen wrote:
>> ...
>> > You can add them by editing ~/.dia/menurc.  Either edit and uncomment
>> > the appropriate lines, or just add the following:
>> > 
>> > (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/display-actions/ObjectsBringforwards"
>> > "<Shift><Control>f")
>> > (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/display-actions/ObjectsSendbackwards"
>> > "<Shift><Control>b")
>> 
>> Thanks for that help. Somehow I am having some trouble with this. I am
>> using Dia 0.96.1 and after adding those lines to ~/.dia/menurc, starting
>> Dia and ending it again, the menurc file is updated and those lines are
>> deleted again.
>> 
>> I also tried to change the order of some objects with that key
>> combination, but that did not work either.
>
> Works for me...
>
>> Is there another setting I need to do in order to keep the changes in
>> menurc permanent?
>
> I don't think so -- I'm having it work fine on a fresh Ubuntu 8.10 with
> both Dia 0.96.1 and newest SVN. Note that the lines end up being moved
> to some arbitrary place in the menurc file instead of being put at the
> end again.  Might that be it, or are the shortcuts gone from Dia again?

In other gnome applications I had trouble due to gconf.

If you are using gnome under X windows.  Try the following.

1.  Logoff from your X lgin

2.  Login to a text terminal.

3.  Logout

4.  Login via X

I don't think I had to do anything gross such as

   mv ~/.gconf ~/gconf-save

   work in single user mode

Good luck; sorry I don't remember the details of what I did.

allan