Re: How to find out if something in the GTK application reserved particular accelerator?

Mike Wey

Posted Wed, 24 Aug 2022 05:20:56 -0400 in reply to Dejan Lekic

On 23-08-2022 16:00, Dejan Lekic wrote:

In the tiny IDE I work on I have the following problem:

This works:

 MenuItem compileFileItem = new MenuItem("_Compile file", (MenuItem mi) => pm.compileFile(), "activate");
 compileFileItem.addAccelerator("activate", accelGroup, GdkKeysyms.GDK_F6, ModifierType.SHIFT_MASK,
                             AccelFlags.VISIBLE);
 projectMenu.add(compileFileItem);

However, this does not

 MenuItem compileFileItem = new MenuItem("_Compile file", (MenuItem mi) => pm.compileFile(), "activate");
 compileFileItem.addAccelerator("activate", accelGroup, GdkKeysyms.GDK_F6, ModifierType.CONTROL_MASK,
                             AccelFlags.VISIBLE);
 projectMenu.add(compileFileItem);

I suspect something "stole" the CTRL-F6 shortcut. Same is happening with ALT-F6. Any ideas how to fix this?

You might be able to trace it using the gtk inspector, by running your
application with the following environment variable set:

GTK_DEBUG=interactive