Re: getting to panels

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 22 Feb 2006, at 14:29, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

> I don't see how to focus something on the panel with
> the mouse. The best example of a panel with this
> problem is the default bottom one, once the window
> list is full.

It's not always as obvious as you'd like, no.  You can focus the  
window list by clicking its gripper bar. Applets with text fields are  
focused by clicking in the text field.  Launchers are a bit trickier,  
but if nothing else you can usually focus those starting to drag  
them, then cancelling the drag by hitting Esc.  (Or you can just  
click them, but then they only stay focused until the app they're  
launching opens and grabs focus back.)

> With Ctrl-Alt-Tab, I can get a panel focussed, but
> hitting CTRL-F10 pops the menu up under my mouse
> cursor.

Yep, that's a known bug, IIRC.

> (And Ctrl-Alt-Tab works on 2.12, but not the
> 2.13.90 VM I'm using for doc writing -- could you
> confirm it still exists?)

Definitely should... if it doesn't it's a bug (and probably a high  
priority one, as it breaks the only keyboard accessible way to get to  
the panel).

> BTW, Ctrl-Alt-Tab is an undocumented shortcut as far
> as I can tell -- does it have some sort of a name so I
> can mention it?

It's documented in the Bible of GNOME keyboard shortcuts, aka the  
Accessibility Guide:
http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/ch03s03.html

Very first item :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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