Closed Bug 43034 Opened 24 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Solaris/Panorama wm: ALT accl. don't work, enter ALTed key

Categories

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Platform:
Sun
Solaris
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: dkarr, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted) 

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u)
BuildID:    2000061821

I press ALT-n to create a new window.  It doesn't create
a new window, but just enters "n" in the URL field.  All accelerators are
behaving the same way.
Note that I am not using CDE as my window manager, but
Panorama (formerly sold by SCO).  I hope that is not the
issue.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bring up mozilla.
2. Put focus in URL field.
3. Hold down ALT.
4. Press "n".

Actual Results:  The letter "n" appears in the URL field.

Expected Results:  A new Mozilla window should have been created.

My platform is using the Panorama window manager, not CDE.
I'm also executing Mozilla on a 2.6 system, but displaying on a 2.5.1 system.
Works for me on Linux 061908 build, can you try today's build on your system?
Also, if you click on the regular page part of the Moz window, does alt+n work?
we need to find a solaris user for this.
yes, we need someone with solaris to test this....
Assignee: asa → don
Component: Browser-General → Keyboard Navigation
Keywords: qawanted
QA Contact: doronr → szhu
With build 2000061921, with the focus in the URL field, it still just
inserts an "n" into the URL field, but doesn't create a new window.

If I manually put the focus into the main page area, pressing ALT-n
does nothing.

i tried it on solaris 2.7 using build 2000042619. Alt-n works for me.

Sander, can you please try again on a 6/21 nightly build?
Tried again on 6/21 build.  No change.

However, I also tried the same test, running it on the same workstation, but
displaying on a workstation using CDE, instead of Panorama.  As I feared, that
test case does not fail.  It correctly brings up the new window, and doesn't
insert "n" into the URL field.

Oddly enough, this scenario is similar to an issue I discovered quite a while
ago with running Java applications on Solaris, and displaying on either CDE or
Panorama.  If I display them in Panorama, then accelerators have no effect.  I
don't remember whether the un-ALTed key would pass through to focused
textfields.  If I ran the same application, displaying in CDE, then accelerators
work fine.

Note that accelerators in other applications, like Netscape 4.7x, work fine,
whether displaying in Panorama or CDE.

I don't know, and I seriously wonder, whether this same symptom will occur while
displaying in fvwm or KDE, on Solaris.
*spam* changing all open or resolved bugs that szhu@netscape.com was the QA 
contact for to sairuh@netscape.com.  szhu is no longer with netscape, and these 
bugs could lie dormant otherwise.  sorry for spam.
QA Contact: szhu → sairuh
Tested on Solaris2.6 with build 2000062921. Alt-n works fine.
Note that my display actually is on a Linux machine where I use fvwm95-2.

This looks like a modifier problem. Can you post output of 'xmodmap' command if
you are having problems.

It's best to have Mod1 modifier set to the key you wish to use as Alt.
mcafee, m21
resummarized
Assignee: don → mcafee
Summary: ALT accelerators don't work, enter ALTed key → Solaris/Panorama wm: ALT accl. don't work, enter ALTed key
Target Milestone: --- → M21
Marking as New.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
some gtk acclerator fixes havebeen/are going into the tree,
can you try this again?

I tried this on Solaris 2.8 platform using nightly build moz: 2001041710 and see
that pressing alt+n keys does not start a new browser.

Not sure if this is supposed to work on windows platform. When I tried it on win
NT 4.0 with nightly build : 2001041704 I saw the problem as well. ie., a new
navigator window was not started when alt+n keys were pressed.

i'm confused, do you have a pref set to use alt as your modifier? if not then 
ctrl-n from chrome/content (but not edit boxes) should open a new window
ok, thanks, ctrl+n works both on solaris and windows nightlies, as I do not have
my prefs set to alt+n..

nobody
Assignee: mcafee → nobody
Keywords: helpwanted
Blocks: sunkeymeta
QA Contact: bugzilla → keyboard.navigation
Can anyone with Solaris please test and see if this bug still reproduces?
Keywords: qawanted
Component: Keyboard: Navigation → User events and focus handling

No longer a thing

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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