[25459] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.25: Adobe Reader 5.0.5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Jan 21 19:15:42 2004
Message-Id: <200401220015.i0M0FXqI012903@dit.mit.edu>
To: Rocco J Pigneri <rpigneri@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[25356] in Athena Bugs"
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:42:39 EST."
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:15:33 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
Hi,
>My problem is that the window has no focus, and because it is part of
>the Adobe group, there is no way for me to give it the focus via the
>keyboard. I can make the dialogs appear by hitting Alt or some other
>key like that, but I cannot get the focus in these dialogs via the
>keyboard. I need this feature because it lowers the strain on my
>right wrist since I avoid using the mouse.
I'm still not sure I understand the problem, and I can't reproduce it.
I have some new suggestions that may help you; if not, it might be
best if you could meet with me or one of the Athena Consultants and
show us the problem directly.
Have you tried using <meta-TAB> to rotate focus among different windows?
On my machine (a Blade 100), the meta key is the one immediately left of
the spacebar, with a diamond on it. When I open acroread, and request
printing with <control-P>, it pops open a printing dialog. When I then
use <meta-TAB>, it cycles through all the windows and I can always give
focus to the print dialog window.
If that doesn't do what you want, try the Gnome control center:
Menu -> Settings -> Gnome Control Center, then pick Windows, and in
the new dialog that opens, pick the Focus tab; try setting different
values, in particular try turning on "Focus on application windows when
they first appear" if this isn't already selected. On that same dialog,
you can also try experimenting with the Auto-Raise tab settings.
I was able to completely control every aspect of printing in acroread
from the keyboard, without using the mouse. If you still can't, your
dot files might be corrupted. The Athena Consultants should be able to
fix them for you if so.
Alex
