You should be able to catch the up arrow by catching key-pressed events from the text entry widget; it's only when you want to use a standard GTK key combination globally that you'll have problems, it's perfectly okay to catch a key press on the currently focused widget. You can see an example of this in the EventViewer.
You should be able to catch the up arrow by catching key-pressed events from the text entry widget; it's only when you want to use a standard GTK key combination globally that you'll have problems, it's perfectly okay to catch a key press on the currently focused widget. You can see an example of this in the EventViewer.