<quote who="James Gregory">
> > Ctrl-Alt-(Left/Right/Up/Down) to change workspaces. (Shift-)Alt-Tab to
> > change windows.
>
> Neither of those are working.
>
> I should probably also mention that I've had the gnome-panel thing die
> several times in this session. Is that likely to have destroyed its
> ability to see the keyboard?
No, the window manager gets first dibs on key presses.
> > See the Keyboard Shortcuts control panel for all of these.
>
> Had a look there -- I thought that was the obvious place. My keyboard
> shortcuts has only got:
>
> Desktop
> Window Management
>
> Under Action, and I can't see how to set the "Shortcut" thing.
Click on the second column and type your shortcut.
> Is this because I'm doing it through the menus and not using nautilus?
No, the control panels are the same whereever you launch them from (each one
is its own executable, too).
> > If you're running metacity, the 'Put on all workspaces' entry in the window
> > menu should do it.
>
> ahh ok. And I just discovered you get this menu on titlebar-less windows
> by alt-right-clicking -- in WM that's the way I resize windows. Is there
> an equivalent metacity thing to do that?
Alt-F8 (again, mentioned in the Keyboard Shortcuts panel).
> > Needs user-defined keybinding support. Pretty sure Sawfish will handle
> > this for you, however.
>
> hmmm. sawfish is what turned me off gnome in the first place. I had no
> idea of how to drive the control panels in that.
Yeah, however the 2.x version of sawfish is a lot kinder. Most of the crack
has been removed.
- Jeff
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