On Saturday 30 April 2011 04:32:42 Theodore Kilgore wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 03:52 -0400, Jabba Laci wrote: > > > Do you know how to get back F10 in Unity? I haven't found it yet. > > > > Yes, that's a PITA, affect yourself with this bug to increase the > > heat: > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/750700 > > > > -- > > Sincerely yours, > > Yury V. Zaytsev > > Hi, > > While I fully agree that they should not do that, let me mention that I > faced the same problem a couple of years ago when I installed MC on a > Mac OS-10 system. The Mac already has F10 mapped to something like > "minimize window" or such. Also, for that matter, F9 already has a > specific meaning. > > In such situations it is possible to do some kind of re-mapping. Try to > figure out which of Cntl-F10, Alt-F10, Shift-F10 or whatever do not > already have a designated meaning, and re-map the exit function to one > of those. How I did that at the moment escapes me, but it was not that > difficult, actually. > > This is certainly not an ideal solution, but it can alleviate an > annoyance, at least to some extent. > > Also, while one could hardly expect OS-10 to accommodate the key > conventions of MC, I do emphatically agree that a Linux distribution > really ought to. MC has a long and widespread usage pattern on Linux, > and distros ought simply to understand that there are going to be lots > of people who continue to want to use it no matter what kind of fancy > new desktop designs that they want to introduce. > One of the reasons the don't bother about keeping the mc keys is that they do not put mc in the distro. Why I have no idea as it is the first thing I have to add.
There was also a problem with an older 8.04? Ubuntu usurping F10. William > Hoping that the above suggestions might help a little bit, > > Theodore Kilgore > _______________________________________________ > mc mailing list > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc _______________________________________________ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
