Re: Need to disable F1 Shortcut (Help) key

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:31:46PM -0500, Billy Davis wrote:
> Our 'C' application makes extensive use of the keyboard Fkeys.
> Prior to gnome2 everything worked fine.  Now, when we press the F1
> key in the application, the gnome HELP window displays, interfering
> with our application.  Chapter 1.2 of the gnome Users Guide states
> that the Desktop Shortcut keys canb be modified by choosing
> Applications-->Desktop Preferences-->Keyboard Shortcuts, and figure
> 1.2.1 shows F1 as the default online help key.  However, when we
> display the live table on our RedHat 8.0 Server, only 4 Desktop
> shortcut keys are displayed, and none of them are the help key.  How
> do we disable the F1 key so that our application will run properly
> again??
> 

If your app has a Help->Contents menu item, just change the
accelerator for that item to something else, right?

Havoc