Re: ctrl-a in firefox

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:26:13PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
>
> > j64669@columbus.rr.com wrote:
> >
> > > Create a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory that reads 
> > >      gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
> > > Worked for me, anyway.
> >
> > thanks or the tip.  after writing the email I found this on the web, 
> > too, tried it but with no success!  Would love to hear whether other 
> > folks are having the same issue.
>
>
> If you're running GNOME or xfce4 (and probably KDE somehow too) then
> you're running an xsettings manager.
>
> You just need to go into keyboard settings and set the keyboard map to
> Emacs in xfce4 for instance.  
hi simon,

thanks, that was the trick!  still not quite sure what the keyboard 
mapper does, & a little worried this mightl ead to unexpected 
consequences in other domains, but it's nice to have firefox working as 
usual again!

matt