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Re: A real simple one
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Sat, 25 Mar 2000 17:08:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:
I think that might be a chicken-and-the-egg problem, though?  (At least in
Gnome+Enlightenment, I think it is...  Probably not in all of the upper-layer
GUIs...)  You have to first know where to click to get the app's system menu.

Since you brought up Gnome+Enlightenment and keyboard access, maybe someone can
help with this.  I have one of those keyboards with the Windows icon keys and
that other (worthless to me) right-click key.  Can I get Gnome's main menu to
come up when I push the windows key, like with the Windows Start menu?  That
would save me a trip over to the mouse pretty often.

Ben Roller



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  Re: A real simple one
 
(...) Keyboard support for almost everything (a highly fortuitous legacy feature left over from Windows 1.0 before mouses) is one of the very few things I *love* about Windows. Alt- to get to any app's menu bar (whether it uses &-underlining in the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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