Re: navigating with alt+arrow keys

[Nachiket Kapre <nachiket gmail com>]

Thanks. I will wait for the update.

But, where can I set evince preferences? There doesn't seem to be any
such option available.
I am using evince 2.24.1

Nachiket

2009/4/5 Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev yandex ru>:
> В Срд, 01/04/2009 в 09:32 -0400, Nachiket Kapre пишет:
>> A few version back it was possibly to use ALT key in combination with
>> the arrow keys to precisely position the document within the evince
>> window. This was very convenient to zoom in and focus on the portion
>> of the document you wanted. With the recent versions, it is only
>> possible to use ALT with up and down arrays to take small steps in the
>> vertical dimension. The ALT keys used in combination with the right
>> and left arrows now rotate the document. Is this configurable
>> somewhere? I really like the old ALT+arrow behavior. Also, it would be
>> useful to have keyboard shortcuts programmable in the future through
>> the GUI.
>
> Thanks for your report Nachiket. Indeed there is a conflict, so I
> changed the rotate binding to Ctrl+Left/Right. For futher details please
> see the bug
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539972
>
> This will be available in the next release, while waiting you can always
> change the bindings yourself. Activate editable bindings in your
> preferences, select the item and press any key you want to use. This
> binding will be saved.
>
>