Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > On 20150312_2255-0500, David Wright wrote: > > Press Left-Alt and the menu bar will appear. You can also press, say, > > It seems we are using different versions of iceweasel, or different > versions of Jessie.
Configuring keys can be quite obscure, especially in iceweasel. I have observed that about:config has ui.key.menuAccessKey set to 18, its default, though the significance of 18 is a mystery to me. Or it may be to do with the DE or window manager. I'm using FVWM. > On my computer pressing Left-Alt *alone* does > nothing. In this respect (on my machine) it acts similarly to the > Shift keys, in that it modifies the action of the following key press > while the Alt key is being held down. Yes, that's what I described in the enveloping paragraph marked > > if you stitch it back together: "You can also press, say, Left-Alt-B and get the bookmarks," > Unlike the Shift key, there > seems not to be an Alt-Lock, paralleling the Shift-Lock. > > > Left-Alt-B and get the bookmarks, if you know the appropriate letters, > > F, E, V, S, B etc. > > For me, the whole point of a GUI is that it allows the interface > designer to sprinkle about the screen various visual cues and hot > spots that allow the user to instruct the computer without having to a > set of appropriate keys. Oh well, live and learn. > > But I did discover a way to get the toolbar that works for my > computer: On the far right end of the line that contains the text box > for entering the URL, there is and icon containing three short think > horizontal lines. If I click on that, it opens a configuration > menu. If I click on the last item in that menu, it opens another menu > in the lower LEFT corner of the iceweasel window. In this lower left > menu, there are some check boxes. Checking a box appears not to do > anything, but after you exit from the menu on the RIGHT side, the > Toolbar and/or Menu bar is/are displayed. I checked this out and it also worked for me. > The trouble with this as a definitive solution is that I am pretty > sure that the icon with three horizontal bars in it is a configurable > item. I wouldn't know what to do if my iceweasel were configured to > leave out that icon. Eek. I thought that icon was the new way of doing things. Draw a little button with a mysterious picture on it so that only people under 10 years old know what it does. It took me years to realise that about:config was the new way of doing all the things I couldn't find in Edit/Preferences any more. And at work, "training" nowadays consists of being told to "Play with it; try pressing the buttons to see what they do; click on Help if you can find it." > Sorry for the cranky tone. I get cranky when I'm not in control of my > computer. My sympathy. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150316014922.gb17...@alum.home
