Re: Reserved Accel Keys

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Maher Awamy <muhri@muhri.net> writes:
> 
> 	 I was wondering if its not possible to use such accel keys as the
> delete key in Gtk. It seems that everytime I try to set the delete key as an
> accel, it gets accepted but the key is not visible on the menu or works. Even
> when I try to set an accel manually by pulling down the menu and hitting a key,
> it accepts all keys except for the delete key. Is there a reason behind this,
> is there a way around it?
> 
> Sorry if this question had been asked before but I just joined this list.
> 

The reason is that Delete removes the accelerator if you're editing
accelerators by pulling down the menu and hitting a key.

Havoc