[17015] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.3.13: netscape 4.61
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Aug 5 10:57:24 1999
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:57:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU, web-agents@MIT.EDU
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You would do well to ask why Netscape made its hotkeys internally
inconsistent :) This one isn't our fault but I believe we can fix it. It
will take a while to get the xresources working properly, though. Until
then, as you've seen, strange things may happen when you use the Alt keys.
-Todd
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, oliver thomas wrote:
>
> System name: mufasa.mit.edu
> Type and version: IP32 8.3.13 (with mkserv)
> Display type: CRM
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: twm
>
> What were you trying to do?
>
> Find again.
>
> What's wrong:
>
> Alt-G is to be bound to both "find again" and the "go" menu. this
> has the effect that, upon hitting Alt-G, a find again is
> performed, followed by the go menu popping up.
>
> What should have happened:
>
> it should do one or the other. under the previous version of
> netscape, it ignored the Alt- menu shortcuts. if it no longer
> does, then the shortcuts conflicting with menus should probably be
> re-bound. this is also a problem for Alt-F (file menu and Find),
> Alt-C (communicator menu and copy), and Alt-V (view menu and
> paste).
