Re: [Pan-users] Re: customize keybindings

[Michael Wild]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 19:21 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
> Interesting.  I hadn't been able to get the GUI edit method to work with
> new-pan, tho it worked with old-pan (0.14.x) just fine.  It's probably
> that old gtk setting that I thought was no longer needed.
> 

you'll have to enable it (e.g. in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file or in gconf,
just can't remember the key now. google will help, as it did for me:-))

> There are two different ways to address your question.
> 
> 1)  In old-pan, and I assume in new-pan, adding unmodified accels using
> the GUI method DID work, but there was one BIG exception.  Any accel
> used as a /menu/ accel couldn't be added with the GUI, because it would
> trigger the menu action instead and that took precedence.

now i know, where my problem came from :-)

> 
> 2)  The file you mentioned, accels.txt, is indeed where pan stores the
> accels.  Edit it and you edit pan's accel mapping.  Of course, you must
> edit it with pan closed, or when you close the pan session with the
> existing mappings, it'll overwrite the new ones you just saved.

stupid me... of course. got it working now!


> I have attached under my sig (using the pan-attach script I've posted in
> the past, in text/identity mode) a copy of my accels.txt edit file, which
> should be useful.

now, that is useful!

> Hope this has helped! =8^)
> 
> -- 
> Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman
> 

thanks very much, duncan! this helped me a lot (although stupid me
didn't realise, that accels.txt got overwritten after each quit...).


michael