[Users] Keyboard shortcuts

[Neil]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:14:44 -0500
Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> If I'm understanding you correctly, this is a known situation with a
> known workaround. What's probably happening here is when you press "m"
> as you hover the menu selection, the "m" takes you to a different menu
> selection. I know this is why you can't hover-set d as the hotkey for
> delete: You must do the workaround. Here it is:
> 
> 1) Hover-set the desired action to any unused key combo: The more
>    recognizable the key combo, the better, because you'll need to
>    search for it. I like using something like Ctrl+F12 so I can
>    search for F12. Remember that key combo.
> 2) Exit all instances of claws mail.
> 3) With a text editor, edit your Claws menurc file. On Ubuntu 13.10,
>    mine is $HOME/.claws-mail/menurc . Your mileage may differ.
> 4) Find the line with your new hotkey
> 5) Change that hotkey to the hotkey you REALLY want (m in this case)
> 6) Save and exit from the editor
> 7) Run Claws again. Your new hotkey should now work.
> 
Thanks, that worked. The menurc file was quite long so it took a time
to find the original hotkey.

Now I must check one last thing, if I try to set a new key short-cut and
it is already in use do I get a warning message? That should be easy to
check.

Regards

Neil