root menu via keyboard question

[John Thompson]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

> 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?

I don't know if this helps, but the arrow keys work here to navigate the
pop-up menus without the mouse.  I'm running xfce-3.8.16 compiled with the
"--enable-old-style" option if that's significant.

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-John (John.Thompson at attglobal.net)