Emacs keybindings in Gnome

[Markus Lindholm]

On 6/9/06, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/06/06, Markus Lindholm <markus.lindholm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >  I just tried out FC5 (all packages updated), but I could not get emacs
> > keybindings to work.
> >  What I did was to run gconf-editor (tried both as root and as a normal
> > user) and changed
> >  /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme to 'Emacs'. But it
> > didn't do the trick as I thought it would (I checked by using gedit).
>
> That's odd, as that's exactly what I did, and it works. I did it as a
> normal user - if you do it as root, that will set gtk_key_theme for
> the root account, not your user account. Remember that changes via
> Gconf-editor change things only for the user you run it as.


Yes, I tried first changing the value as a normal user then as root. I
actually noticed now that it had some effect, e.g. ctrl-a and ctrl-e works
correctly with the value set (didn't work before) but ctrl-k on the other
hand brings up a small search window, even with the value set. Weird.
That's not expected behaviour, right?

Any other process or file that could play a role in this?

/markus
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