Keyboard Shortcuts

[Bill Wohler]

> I've made several attempts to assign keyboard shortcuts to a couple
> of menu items, namely "Actions->Remove Transaction Splits" and
> "Actions->Split Transaction".  I open the Actions menu, point my mouse
> to the menu item and press the key I want to associate with it.  It
> works until I exit Gnucash.  The next time I start it up, the
> shortcuts are lost.  I use KDE so I thought maybe it was related to
> that.  I tried it under Gnome but I get the same results.  What am I
> doing wrong?

Nothing. According to Derek:

> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Date: 10 Apr 2003 21:07:09 -0400
> Subject: Re: Faster way to enter lots of transfers? (mouse can be slow
> 	going)...
> 
> Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com> writes:
> 
> > It would be nice to get [the GNOME keyboard accelerator]
> > functionality back. Then you wouldn't have to use the mouse at all
> > ;-). Unfortunately, I'm not positive if it was upgrading to 1.8 or
> > upgrading one of the Gnome libraries that was the cause--my gut feel
> > is was the Gnucash upgrade.
> 
> I suspect this is due to how we dynamically build the menus.
> I don't know if there is a way to memorize and save key bindings
> on dynamic menus.

I've reported the bug with workaround key bindings. You might want to
check the list and see if there are any useful bindings that I missed.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110609

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