Re: Keybindings

[Michael Ekstrand <mekstran scl ameslab gov>]

On Jun 8, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Adam Tee wrote:
> Is there anyway of overriding a window managers keybindings in an
> application ?

AFAIK, no.  I could be wrong here, but I believe the window manager 
sees the keys before they ever get to the application, and eats them.  
Some window managers may potentially support a "pass-through" mode, but 
I don't know (I don't know that I've ever seen such a features, except 
I seem to remember one in an older version of wmii that was 
user-activated, not program-activated).

Besides, overriding the WM's keybindings would be detrimental to users 
- they expect the WM keybindings to work the same in all applications.  
Especially those of us using highly kbd-driven WM's.

> The second concerns menued items which have been configured using an
> array of GtkActionEntries.  Can I changed the associated keybindings on
> the fly, i.e. after loading a keymap file ?  The menus are defined in a
> xml file.

Can't help you there.  I'm a bit fuzzy on the details of managing 
accellerator myself.

- Michael