Re: "Run program" and ALT-F2
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:08:26AM -0500, John Ashley Burgoyne wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For the past few days, I have been unable to use the default ALT-F2
> shortcut to bring up the "Run Program" dialog in GNOME 2. It is listed
> as the shortcut both in the "Keyboard Shortcuts" preferences dialog and
> in gconf, but nothing happens when I type ALT-F2. I have the same
> problem with ALT-F1 to bring up the GNOME menu.
>
> The strange thing is that all of the other keyboard shortcuts work as
> they should. Even stranger is that if I change the default bindings for
> "Run Program" and the GNOME menu to anything else--ALT-F3 and ALT-F6,
> for example--they work fine. Change them back to ALT-F2 and ALT-F1 and
> they are broken again.
>
> Furthermore, I can use ALT-F1 and ALT-F2 themselves to make assignments
> within the "Keyboard Shortcuts" preferences dialog. It can't be as
> simple as some other process that is listening for ALT-F1 and ALT-F2 and
> grabbing them first.
>
> I run sid and update daily, but I apologize that I didn't keep careful
> enough track to figure out whether package upgrade might have caused
> this problem. Has it happened to anybody else? Is there something that I
> could check, read, or run to help get a clearer diagnosis?
Hi. I am having the same problem. It started after metacity was
upgraded to version 2.5.0-1.
Kenny
Reply to: