[Pan-users] Re: Re: Wishlist

[James Gregory]

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 04:22:28 -0700, Duncan wrote:

> James Gregory posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
> below,  on Sun, 08 Feb 2004 03:07:41 +0000:
> 
>>> Add something like this to .pan/data/accels.txt (Linux):
>>> 
>>> (gtk_accel_path "<main>/Articles/Mark Unread" "<Shift>m")
>> 
>> Pan seems to automatically overwrite any changes I make to .pan/accels.txt
>> 
>> I don't seem to have a .pan/data directory.
> 
> Try holding your mouse over the menu entry and hitting the combo you want.
> It should work most of the time, except for single letter shortcuts that
> happen to match a menu accelerator key as well.  

Doesn't seem to work for shift+m...

> Those you need to edit
> in the data file (when PAN is shut down, so it doesn't overwrite it with
> the previous entries on shutdown.. or copy the file and edit the copy so
> you can reference the PAN menus while you are doing it, then shut down PAN
> and copy the file over PAN's copy, but keeping a backup, if you make a LOT
> of changes you don't want to lose).

It still seems to overwrite it even if edited whilst Pan is closed.

> 
> If that doesn't work, it may be that your GTK version is set not to accept
> accel mods.  In that case, do some googling.. the correct incantation has
> been mentioned on this list b4, around GTK+2.0 time, by several folks,
> including me, but that was long enough ago I forgot exactly what it was,
> when it started taking mods again, w/o me having to fix the config file.

I have gtk+2.0.

        James