Re: Accessibility of Gnome panel / How to end session via keyboard

[Mikko Liukko <mikko liukko dnainternet net>]

Hi John

I can exit from gnome by pressing ALT+F1 which takes me to gnome main menu. 
Focus will be on the first menuitem but when I press uparrow once (no items 
above so rollover to the first on bottom) I will be taken to the logout item. 
There I press enter and the logout dialog will appear.



On Thursday 26 June 2003 09:23, John Zitterkopf wrote:
> I wasn't real sure where this question / request for assistance should have
> been posted. I figured the Accessibility mailing list would be a good place
> to start as this appears to be a limitation which would affect vision
> impaired people more than my specific application. If you know of a better
> place to seek information, please let me know.
>
> Executive summary:
> Gnome 2.x does not appear to provide a keyboard shortcut or other means to
> terminating (or logging out) the session.
> The Gnome panel does not appear to have acceleration keys on the menu;
> preventing access via <ALT><F1> key sequence.
>
> Background:
> Prior to our upgrade to Gnome 2.x; we were using which ever flavor of Gnome
> came with Mandrake-Linux v8.1.  I assume it was some version of Gnome 1.x.
> With 1.x; we were able to enter <ALT><F4> as a key binding and it would
> allow us to assign that key to "logging out" (or maybe it was "ending
> session") (as I recall). This allowed us to use the keyboard to logout via
> the following sequence (as I recall):
> <ALT><F4>
> <ALT>O
> <ENTER>
>
> Gnome 2.x appears to have removed the ability assign a key binding to
> ending the session... Google searching has not yielded any answers to this
> question.
>
> As I stated in the summary above; there doesn't appear to be a acceleration
> keys on the gnome panel so I cannot be sure any log out sequences will be
> successful.
>
> My goal:
> Execute gnome... under keyboard control (without visual feedback).
> Detect gnome is running properly (without visual feedback).
> Using the keyboard only (no mouse, no monitor); shutdown gnome properly.
> Needs to be 100% reliable and repeatable.
> Detect gnome has shutdown and the Linux shell is active.
>
> Plea for help:
> Am I missing something crucial with the Gnome 2.x?
> Anyone have any "hacking" ideas which I could kludge some configuration
> scripts to give me what I need / want?
>
> Last resort:
> Where would I begin looking to modify the source code to provide some
> robust method? Keep in mind I have nearly zero experience with code
> development under Linux. I've compiled some apps and kernels which came
> with prepackaged source code; but I'm not sure what packages / files I
> would start with to kludge in some kind of solution.
>
> John
>
>               EE's do it 'til it Hz 8-)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~John D. Zitterkopf~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Mr. Mikko Liukko