root menu via keyboard question

Jasper Huijsmans j.b.huijsmans at hetnet.nl
Fri Apr 19 09:17:28 CEST 2002


To the best of my knowledge this is not possible at the moment. TODO for 
xfce 4, I guess (that list is getting rather large now ;-)

Jasper

At 03:00 AM 4/19/02, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I must state right off that I'm a keyboard shortcut
>freak.  If I can do it w/o using a mouse, then I'm all
>over it.
>
>O.K.  On to my question.  When I bring up the root
>menu (Alt F2), it becomes very cumbersome to use via
>the keyboard because one must 'physically' move the
>mouse position to whichever item one wishes to execute
>(i.e., if there's a sub-menu I have to tap the right
>arrow several times to get the mouse over to the
>sub-menu's items).  Other window managers let me
>scroll through the menu items with the arrow keys, and
>the mouse plays no role in it (seems to be the
>intuitive way about it).
>
>It there a way to set this in xfwmrc (or somewhere) so
>I can get the mouse out of the action?
>
>Thanks in advance for any tips....
>Eric
>
>
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