Re: Stop alt-spacebar window menu

[Emmanuel Rodriguez <emmanuel rodriguez gmail com>]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 cornell edu>wrote:

> 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.
Gnome-terminal allows the user to map keyboard shortcuts using the alt key.
You could take a look at their code an see how they do it

Emmanuel