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Re: "meta" reverts to "control" in firefox.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Jun 16 17:47:07 2005
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:46:55 -0400
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Thanks!
I note that the change does not take effect until Firefox is restarted.
QUESTION: What's "GeneralAccessKey with a default value of 18 for?
-wdc
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 17:26 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> wrote on Thu, 16 Jun 2005
> at 17:16:47 -0400 in <1118956607.16671.40.camel@tokata.mit.edu>:
>
>
> > All my key bindings are keyed off the Meta key.
>
> Me too.
>
> > This is established by setting the "accel key".
> > prefs.js held this name/value pair in Mozilla.
> > Firefox was SUPPOSED to bring this out to a user visible interface.
> > Any guess how to get this setting re-established?
>
> my firefox inherited from mozilla, and you can frob it
> with Location: about:config.
>
> Note that user should not edit prefs.js. If you want
> to do that, you should put them in user.js.
>
> What I have is:
>
> user_pref("ui.key.accelKey", 18);
> user_pref("ui.key.menuAccessKey", 17);
>
> --jhawk
