On 10/12/07, Gary Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 05:30:48PM -0700, ottomeister wrote:
> > The problem is that the window manager would usually
> > intercept and act on keys like 'Front' (F15 or 'ESC [ 2 8 ~') and
> > 'Open' (F17 or 'ESC [ 3 1 ~') instead of letting them be
> > delivered to an application. That's not happening here.
>
> On a SPARC workstation, in the [Keyboard Shortcuts] window, I can
> see `Raise obscured window, otherwise lower' listed as F15. That
> corresponds. Let me go look at an x86 Sun Ray. Ah, it's listed
> as Disabled there. It must think that I have a different keyboard,
> but it's the standard Sun type 6 keyboard. Is there some place I
> can fix this for all users on all Sun Rays or x86 workstations?
I know just enough about Gnome to be dangerous. There are other
people on the list who know a lot more about it, I hope they'll chime in
if I'm leading you astray. Anyway, you should be able to tweak the
Gnome system-wide defaults for this or any other setting by using
the Gnome config editor. By default it operates on your user settings
but as root you can have it operate on the system defaults or the
system mandatory settings.
I don't have an S10 machine handy so this is only approximate, but
fire up 'gconf-editor' as root and from the File menu you should be
able to open a window on the system default settings. Then navigate
the preferences tree to apps->metacity->global_keybindings and
make whatever changes you want. If you don't want users to be able
to choose different settings then you can open the system mandatory
settings and tweak those. I think the change should take effect
immediately but I can't verify that, so maybe a logout/login is required.
If you don't want to use a GUI then there's a command-line tool too
('gconftool-2', I think) but in that case you have to get the command line
syntax exactly right and I'm not comfortable guessing at what the
precise syntax might be for the version of Gnome, and the version of
the tool itself, on S10.
BTW, I don't think this has anything to do with keyboard types. More
likely it's just fallout from the churn that the default key mappings have
gone through in the Solaris delivery of Gnome.
OttoM.
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ottomeister
Disclaimer: These are my opinions. I do not speak for my employer.
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