On 22 Oct 2009, at 22:41, Bill Shannon wrote: > I've searched their forums without luck. I guess I'll actually have > to > ask. I was hoping that the people who figured out how to make the Sun > keyboard work with the Sun version of Gnome would be on this list, and > would be able to tell me how they did it. I've certainly seen > messages > about fixes in this area, discrepancies between x86 and SPARC, etc.
My recollection is that we basically had to patch applications individually, but I could be mistaken there. Cc'ing Erwann, I think he did most of this work at the time. As far as I know, there's still no user configurable way to set global shortcuts for common application commands like Cut, Copy and Paste. Cheeri, Calum. > > > Che Kristo wrote: >> Sorry we have not been able to help you. it seems to me like you >> would be better served asking this in a ubuntu community forum >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 18:02, Bill Shannon <bill.shannon at sun.com >> <mailto:bill.shannon at sun.com >> >> wrote: >> Is there really no one out there who can help? How about a >> suggestion >> for where else to ask for help? >> Thanks. >> Bill Shannon wrote: >> I recently sent the following to opensolaris-discuss. Wrong >> list, >> I should've sent it here... >> Bill Shannon wrote on 9/21/09 12:35 PM: >> This is a bit off topic, but... I thought I remembered a >> discussion here >> that would've helped me figure this out, but I can't >> find it... >> I'm trying to get a Sun keyboard to work with Ubuntu. >> Everything works >> except the left keypad. I really want Cut/Copy/Paste, and >> I'd like >> Front to work. I can't figure out what to configure in >> Gnome to enable >> these to work. I was hoping to see what was done in >> OpenSolaris to make >> them work and then copy that for Ubuntu. >> Can anyone point me in the right direction? >> Thanks! >> Randy Jones pointed me to this thread: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=319429 >> Everything in the metacity.schemas file seems to be settable >> using the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog. It doesn't actually >> work, >> but I can set it. Maybe I need to logout for it to take >> effect? >> Anyway, that only covers the window management keys on the >> left >> keypad, e.g., Front. >> How does OpenSolaris configure the Cut/Copy/Paste keys to >> work? >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org <mailto:desktop-discuss at >> opensolaris.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
