Galeon2 open menu question

[Glenn Johnson]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:35:50PM -0400, stan wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:10:05PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:42:34PM -0400, stan wrote:
> >
> > > I"m trying to set up a machine using Gnome2. One of the chages
> > > (aparently) is that I seem to need to be running "Galen2" Well,
> > > like a lot of the other gnome 2 stuff it seems to be sunstainly
> > > less featurfull than the Gnome 1.4 stuff I' acustomed to,
> > >
> > > So, on to a specif question. When I type "CTRL O" in Galeon (the
> > > original, I get a nice URL entry popup. In Gnome 2 I get (believe
> > > it ot not) a FILE open window. Last time I check this application
> > > was a WWW browser, not a file manager (like I need one of those
> > > ?).
> > >
> > > So, can I change this behavior?
> >
> > You want to type "CTRL-L".  This is pretty much the standard
> > shortcut to enter a URL, even IE uses "CTRL-L"
>
> Thanks for the fast reply.
>
> Unfortunately typing "CTRL-L" in the version I built from ports this
> weekend does nthing. Is this configurable? Is it possible that I need
> to turn it on somehow? I notice that this action is not listed in the
> "File" pulldown menu either, if that tells you anything?

What "CTRL-L" will do (in galeon2) is highlight the existing URL in the
navigation bar and put the keyboard focus there so that whatever you
type will replace it.  It will not open a dialog box.

So, type "CTRL-L", enter your URL, press ENTER, and the page should load
up.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj at charter.net