Comments on “Change Key Bindings in Pidgin”

Change Key Bindings in Pidgin

2010-04-22T02:04:54-04:00

o. m. g. this has caused me so much hair-pulling and frustration over the past couple of weeks. Thanks so much for documenting this – this is definitely more of a bug than a feature. My few remaining hairs thank you also! ;-)

Change Key Bindings in Pidgin

2010-02-22T18:04:29-04:00

OK. I fixed it. the point was “System->Preferences->Appearance:Interface:Editable Menu Shortcut Keys”
I was wandering around and to see what this option is, I just checked it. Then probably I have assigned the shortcut key for “enable logging” to be the letter a, by mousing over this menu option and simultaneously pressing “a”.
Now it works.

Change Key Bindings in Pidgin

2010-02-22T17:56:17-04:00

Hey, I have exactly the same problem with “A” and it stands for Enable “Logging”!
I did the same thing, but it doesn’t work. I realized that I should have GTK read my shortcut keys:
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#HowdoIbindkeystrokestomenuitems
But I don’t know how to do that!
Do you have any idea, what can I do?
(For the time being I turn on the CapsLock and start the chat while I’ve pressed the SHIFT button!)

Change Key Bindings in Pidgin

2009-10-29T04:11:32-04:00

Thanks! Who could have thought. I should probably file a feature request with pidgin folks to make this optional.

Change Key Bindings in Pidgin

2009-08-11T09:26:49-04:00

Glad this saved you some time. Thanks for dropping a comment to let me know.

Change Key Bindings in Pidgin

2009-08-11T07:24:10-04:00

Hey,

thanks for this post.

Had exact the same problem writing the “h”.

This problem definitely had the potential to steal more of my time.