[ale] Firefox oddity
David Corbin
dcorbin at machturtle.com
Mon Dec 11 20:01:57 EST 2006
On Monday 11 December 2006 10:35, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> All of a sudden I've lost a routine keyboard shortcut in Firefox.
>
> Alt + backarrow is supposed to equate to clicking on the BackArrow.
> For many months I have used the right Alt key plus the Backarrow to
> do this -- it's a one-handed operation.
>
> Now, all of a sudden, it no longer works. But using the _left_ Alt
> key + the Backarrow does. Down side is that this requires both hands.
>
> I've looked through <about:config> but can't find anything.
>
> Anybody have any clues on how I might restore the earlier function?
>
> Sean
X sees the left and right alt keys differently, and there is some type of
setting where you can tell it try them the same, but I'm afraid I don't
remember any details beyond that I think "Gr" is part of setting. It *might*
be in the KDE panel, if you're using that.
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