Closed Bug 250175 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Control-A doesn't work in Linux

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: jonathan, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9

Using Control-A to select all doesn't seem to work in Linux. I've seen similar
bugs reported, but all on Microsoft versions with media control. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a message composer window
2. Type something
3. Push CTL-A

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
All text should've been selected
Well yes, I'd like to see Ctrl+A work too. But the official shortcut for Select
All is Alt+A (see menu) - and that works.
Bug 150627 explains why Ctrl+A is not used for select all on *nix.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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