On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 01:07 +0930, Tim wrote: > I've just tried to set up some keyboard shortcuts, using Gnome, and > found that some will not do anything, just like when I tried to do the > same back on FC4, and I'm darned if I can find anything helpful about > this. I gave up on trying to find where the fault was, and took the brute force method. There's gconf.xml files all over the place, and just I couldn't tell what was wrong with them just by looking at them. Seeing as the shortcuts work for another user, the problem's got to be down to my own settings, somewhere. I logged out graphically, renamed the .gconf directory through the CLI, leaving me with defaults, logged back in graphically, and it works. Now, faced with Evolution losing all my settings (damn thing should have it's own .evolution folder, not spreading its parts it other places), I had to put its settings files back in ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/, log out and back in again, and then go through configuring other things I'd lost. Grr, this is reminding me of Windows... I suppose I could try diffing between the renamed and newly made settings, but there's a bit of a mess of a tree to go through. One thing I do know, *I* didn't bugger it up, all of this was configured through the GUI configurators that come with the Gnome desktop. It looks like I won't be able to use special keyboard keys with XMMS, as it doesn't seem to pay attention to Gnome controlling things. It wants to listen to keys for itself (which would preclude other things from using the same keys). At least it looks that way from playing with the xmms-acme RPM. I don't care for the other music players I've tried, such as rhythmbox, which does pay attention to the player keys. It's a whacking great lumbering elephant, whereas XMMS was small and simple. But at least I can now mute the sound, or adjust the volume, easily. even the screensaver lock hotkey works, now. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
