Re: Stop alt-spacebar window menu

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

Bill Farmer wrote:
> I am porting a native windows application to linux gtk. I want to stop 
> the alt-spacebar key combination popping up the application window menu. 
> This can be done in windows by capturing the WM_SYSCHAR message. After 
> searching though the gtk documentation and sources, the only way I can 
> see to do this is by copying a file from the gdk sources, modifying it, 
> and compiling it with the application.

You probably will not have any success doing this unless you are able to 
control the user's environment.  Things work differently on X11 than on 
Windows.  The alt+space key combo is likely handled by the window 
manager, which will eat the key and react to it and not even pass it on 
to your application.

I'd suggest not using shortcuts that use only alt as the modifier. 
While there's no standard relating to this, usually those end up getting 
"reserved" for use by the window manager, or for accessing menus via the 
keyboard.

> This is complicated by the latest 
> gtk source tarball not including gdk. Is this because gdk hasn't changed 
> since the last version that contained it? Am I missing something?

You're mistaken... all official release copies of the gtk 2.x source 
include gdk.  Where did you get your copy?

        -brian