On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 01:09:54PM -0700, ottomeister wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I'd appreciate that. Maybe I should open a support case?
> 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.
I suppose I'd have to do that for all x86 Sun Ray servers and all
x86 workstations. I'd prefer something that worked automatically
at install time, just as it does on SPARC machines.
> 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.
I believe you're correct. I just tried a CDE session on a Solaris 10
x86 Sun Ray server; the named keys on the left-hand side worked
correctly there. We don't use CDE, though, but it seems that only
Gnome has the problem, and only on x86 Sun Ray servers and
workstations.
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-Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
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