Re: Problems with keyboard shortcuts.

["Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi, Kenny.
I believe Mandrake is using sawfish as the default Window maniger which
sounds to be the source of the issue. How do I change the window maniger so
all users use metacity as default and not sawfish?



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny hittsjunk net>
To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: Problems with keyboard shortcuts.


> I've had the same problem in Debian if sawfish was my default window
> manager.  It seems most of the keyboard shortcuts for Gnome are in
> metacity.
>
>           Kenny
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:46:31AM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> > Hello, list.
> > I am having a rather serious problem in gnome 2.4.0 where none of the
> > supported keyboard shortcuts work. For example: alt-f1 for applications
> > menu, alt-f2 for run application, control-alt-d for desktop, etc...
> > I am currently running Mandrake 9.2 with gnome 2.4.0 and gnopernicus
0.7.
> > Has anyone ever seen this problem, and is there a known fix?
> > If not should I report this bug promptly to Mandrake Soft so that they
can
> > get to the bottum of why the accessibility features of gnome seam to all
be
> > turned off.
> > The strange part of this is that the problem seams to pick and choose
which
> > keyboard shortcuts it will proform and which won't. For example f10
takes
> > you to the menubar as it is suppose to, but the alt-f won't bring up the
> > file menu. alt-f4 won't close an app but control-q in most apps will do
it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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