Re: Need to disable F1 Shortcut (Help) key

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>]

Hey there,

> 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??

This sounds like a Sun GNOME specific - we have custom shortcuts in our
dialog. The 'Help' key shortcut is actually binding the help browser to
the physical 'Help' key that appears on most Solaris keyboards.


			See ya,
				Glynn :)