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Bug 6329

Summary: Ctrl-Alt-(minus) not a good choice for accelerator
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: James Moody <James_Moody>
Component: UIAssignee: Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 Keywords: accessibility
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:

Description James Moody CLA 2001-11-26 15:55:34 EST 
Ctrl - Alt - - is the shortcut for show view menu. On Linux, Ctrl-Alt-+ and 
Ctrl-Alt-- are used to switch video modes in X. I don't know who would win the 
fight for the accelerator, but in any case having it conflict with a well-known 
accelerator is probably not a good idea.
Comment 1 Nick Edgar CLA 2001-11-28 09:51:17 EST 
Do you know where I could get a table of all system-level accelerators on Linux 
(i.e. ones we shouldn't use?)

Would CTRL+F10 work?  Note that SHIFT+F10 gives the context menu on Windows.
Comment 2 James Moody CLA 2001-11-28 10:37:16 EST 
For X, Ctrl-Alt-- and Ctrl-Alt-+ change video modes, and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace 
shuts down the X server. Also, on any linux box, Ctrl-Alt-Fx changes terminal. 
Those are the only ones I know about that don't change; any others would be 
specific to a window manager and ultimately configurable, so you could never 
win by making a list of them.
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-01-10 11:00:31 EST 
It is Ctrl F10 as of build 20011219.

Note that Ctrl+Alt should be avoided in general at the AltGr key on European 
keyboards maps to this value.