Re: [gtk-osx-users] cut/copy/paste accelerators on Mac

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Dec 26, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Brecht Machiels <brecht__gmane mos6581 org> wrote:
>
> Ignore this one. Wrong mailing list of course.

But also the wrong question, because accelerators are for menu items, which dialog boxes don’t have. You want 
to ask about bindings.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On 2014-12-26 21:40:52 +0000, Brecht Machiels said:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm running into a problem with PyGTK on OS X. Please find the
> > description below (originally posted to the GTK+-2 OSX Users mailing
> > list).
> > On 2014-12-26 19:13:32 +0000, John Ralls said:
> > > > On Dec 26, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Brecht Machiels wrote:
> > > > With gtkosx-application installed, I have managed to move Zim menus to
> > > > the OS X menu bar and About/Preferences/Quit to the application menu
> > > > without much trouble, but there are some problems remaining.
> > > > 3) I changed all of Zim's keyboard accelerators to use <Primary>
> > > > instead of <ctrl>. This works as expected for all accelerators in the
> > > > main Zim text editor widget. However, in other widgets (such as a
> > > > search box), the Cmd-x/c/v accelerators do not work. Ctrl-x/c/v do,
> > > > however.
> > > > I did come across the "modifyng Gtk-2 keybindings" thread on this
> > > > mailing list, where it was recommended to set
> > > >    gtk-key-theme-name="Mac"
> > > > in ~/.gtkrc-2.0
> > > > While this doesn't work with the Homebrew GTK+, adding
> > > >    include
> > > > "/usr/local/Cellar/gtk+-quartz/2.24.11/share/themes/Mac/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc"
> > > > should have the same effect, I think.
> > > > Now, the search box in Zim's main window will work with Cmd-x/c/v, but
> > > > text widgets in other windows (dialogs) don't, and they won't react to
> > > > Ctrl-x/c/v anymore either. Is there any way to make this work as
> > > > expected?
> > > Possibly not. PyGtk hasn't been maintained for some time and may not
> > > have kept up with the changes to the key handling code in Gtk+-2.24. It
> > > has nothing to do with gtk-mac-integration, which only handles menus.
> > What could explain the Cmd+x/c/v accelerators not working in dialogs?
> > Thanks,
> > Brecht
>
>
>
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