Xfce and keyboard only navigation ?

Mike Massonnet mmassonnet at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 04:08:27 CEST 2006


Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:36:28 +0200 - "Alexander Toresson"
<alexander.toresson at gmail.com> wrote :

> On 9/17/06, dunric29a at atlas.cz <dunric29a at atlas.cz> wrote:
> > I'd like to ask you how to navigate main panel or how to invoke
> > desktop context menu with keyboard ? There are some cases, where
> > mouse input device simply doesn't work and it looks like it would
> > left Xfce almost useless. AFAIK all GTK+ widgets support full
> > alternative navigation with keyboard and I see no reason Xfce
> > couldn't implement it. At least it would be handy how to invoke
> > desktop menu with keyboard shortcut.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > p.s. Is this somehow solved in forthcomming Xfce 4.4 ?
> >
> 
> Bind any key combo to xfdesktop -menu.

  If you have the menu in the panel you can also call xfce4-popup-menu
(through a keyboard shortcut...) and it will show up.

  It looks better IMHO :)  IIRC it is binded by default to Ctrl-<esc>
in Xfce 4.4RC1.

> 
> Regards, Alexander Toresson

Mike
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