[Bug 355383] [NEW] key bindings fail in firefox and thunderbird

[Charles Hedrick]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

You're supposed to be able to get emacs keybindings, which are primarily
control keys, e.g. control-A moves to the beginning of the line. In
gconf-edit you set the key theme to emacs, then in thunderbird and
firefox, change the accelerator key from control to alt (so that the
builtin commands don't interfere with the emacs commands). See
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=382766 for details.

This works in Opensolaris 2008.11, which is a Gnome/GTK environment with
packages similar to the normal Linux ones. It works in the most recent
Debian for Thunderbird but not Firefox. (However on my machine Debian
hangs, so I can't use it for real.)

In Ubuntu, the default key bindings, e.g. control-A for selectall,
remain even after changing the configuration. After the change the edit
menu claims select all is Alt-A, and Alt-A works, but Control-A still
does it as well.

There are other ways to change the key bindings in Thunderbird, none of
which work. Something at a lower level in the system seems to taking the
control keys. I also tried sylpheed, which lets you rebind keys. Again,
sylpheed understood the new bindings and showed them in the menus, but
something is still trapping control A, control C, and control V at least
and maybe a few others.

I'm currently using unbuntu 9.04 beta i86 with xubuntu installed, but
I've also tried it in 8.10.

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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key bindings fail in firefox and thunderbird
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