emacs keybindings? alsaconf?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 01:47:20PM -0400, Scott Campbell wrote:

> I'm just switching from fluxbox on Debian/Testing to Gnome 2.8 on Ubuntu
> and can't find the setting to change from Gnome to Emacs keybindings.
> The Help suggests it should be in Computer~Keyboard Shortcuts, but it's
> not there. Is this a bug or disabled in Ubuntu or missing in Gnome 2.8?.
> Can it be twiddled in System Tools~Configuration Editor? 

$ gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emacs

> My sound card was detected upon install but appears to be misidentified.
> Before, I compiled my own 2.4 kernel and alsa drivers, then used
> alsaconf to detect and configure things. Now, with a 2.6 kernel image, I
> was hoping to avoid that mess, but alsaconf is missing. I think it was
> around on Friday when I installed Ubuntu, but went missing after a
> 'Smart' upgrade in synaptic. I'd rather try it before fiddling with text
> files and compiling my own kernel. Is there another way to
> auto-configure things? 

alsaconf should not be necessary, and has a tendency to break things, which
is why it was removed.

Can you be more specific about your problem?  We would very much prefer to
fix things so that they are detected correctly and set up automatically,
than to have folks hack around problems with things like alsaconf.

> Hats off to the Ubuntu team. Great looking system, even on my ancient
> Thinkpad 600E. Which brings up a third issue: hibernation/suspend would
> be nice, and the thinkpad module/driver from Thomas Hood. I suspect that
> I will be forced to grab the kernel sources and do this by hand, but I'm
> just voting for my own setup.

Hibernation/suspend is on the list for the next release (see HoaryHedgehog
in the wiki).

-- 
 - mdz