On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, William Kimber wrote:
> 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. Well, AFAIR the same could be said about several distros, starting with Debian (which might account for mc being missing in the default Ubuntu install) and, I think, Red Hat as well. Why? I have no idea, either. But if you do get into a jam about this on some new system and cannot otherwise get out, then as I rememember it is is indeed possible to re-map the F10 key's functionality to something else which is "close enough" to avoid acute discomfort. I forget now exactly how I did it, though. I think it had something to do with MC setup functions but at this point I cannot be sure. As my students in calculus courses say about things like basic trigonometry, "Sir, it has been a long time since I studied that." Theodore Kilgore _______________________________________________ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
