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WorkingOnIt

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Registered: 2014-05-23

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[SOLVED] Emacs Key Theme in Gnome but Retain Select All with Ctrl-a?

Using gnome tweak tool, I switched key theme to emacs. However, now when I press ctrl-A it no longer selects all. Especially given that "Ctrl-x h" isn't working to select all (not a problem! I want ctrl-a), I would like to keep the emacs key theme but still be able to select all with ctrl-A.

I looked at dconf-editor, but org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings doesn't have anything for select all, and in org/gnome/desktop/interface I merely see gtk-key-theme set to emacs.

Does anyone have a solution to this?

Thanks a lot.

Last edited by WorkingOnIt (2014-05-25 06:53:48)

WorkingOnIt

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Registered: 2014-05-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Emacs Key Theme in Gnome but Retain Select All with Ctrl-a?

Since posting I found this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162794

I'm going to try editing the Emacs gtkrc (have to find where that is, but that's fine) and changing to:

bind "<ctrl>a" { "select all" () }

Last edited by WorkingOnIt (2014-05-25 06:48:55)

WorkingOnIt

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Re: [SOLVED] Emacs Key Theme in Gnome but Retain Select All with Ctrl-a?

That worked!

The gtkrc file's path is: /usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc

Marking as solved!