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Re: firefox lost emacs keybindings

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Wed Jan 14 17:06:03 2009

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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:01:26 -0500
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>

On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Jonathon Weiss wrote:

>> A workaround is to set the GTK_DATA_PREFIX environment variable to
>> run firefox, e.g.:
>>
>>    % env GTK_DATA_PREFIX=/usr/athena firefox
>>
>> I want to do some more investigation before adding this to our
>> wrapper, though.

It turns out that this does not work generally.

>> (It should also work to add:
>>
>>    include "/usr/athena/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc"
>>
>> to your .gtkrc-2.0).
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
> Thanks, adding the include line to my .gtkrc-2.0 solved the problem

So adding the include line is the only effective workaround at
the moment...

Thanks,
Bob


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