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Re: Killer Apps?



Hello 
> Mat Hostetter wrote: 
> > Did you know that you can set Executor to "system 7" mode, by bringing
> > up the alt-shift-5 panel?  You can also run Executor as
> > "executor -system 7" to get largely the same effect.
> 
> Perhaps I am missing the point, but when I hold the alt key and the
> shift key, and then hit the number 5, nothing happens. I also thought
> that the alt key took the place of the apple/clover/whatever key on the
> mac, yet when I try to do an alt-b for boldface in Word, for example,
> nothing happens. I've tried both the left and right alt keys.

What window manager are you using? I was using olvwm and only the normal keys 
worked, the ALT-MAYs stuff didn't work with it, so I change to fvwm, and I 
worked!
With olvwm all the keys pressed were sent to the shell window from which I 
started executor.
 
Emilio 
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