RE: open terminal window with keyboard

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Mueth [mailto:d-mueth@uchicago.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 10:49 PM
> To: Chris Duke
> Subject: Re: open terminal window with keyboard
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi there, my mouse is not working sometimes, so with the 
> keyboard, how
> > do I 1] navigate through the Gnome main menu button with 
> the keyboard,
> > and/or 2] how do i open a console with a keyboard shortcut binding?
> > 
> > thanks, chris
> 
> [1]
> There is a keybinding which should open your Main Menu.  I believe the
> default setting is supposed to be the menu button (a couple 
> positions to
> the right of the space bar on many keyboards). This default 
> did not work
> for me initially though.  You can configure this to be 
> anything you want
> by going into the Control Center and selecting Desktop->Panel and then
> going to the "Miscellaneous" tab.  Set the "Popup menu key" 
> to whatever
> you want. It has a nifty feature of letting you press any key on the
> keyboard and it will grab it and remember it for you, so you 
> can use one
> of those otherwise useless keys like the M$ logo.  From 
> there, you just
> use your arrow keys.

What GNOME are you running?  Under "Desktop" I do not have a panel option,
nor do I have a "panel" option anywhere in the control center than I can
see.
Control-center-1.0.51
gnome-core-1.0.55
gnome-libs-1.0.57 (including all of the totally broken sound stuff...)
	Greg