dash navigation does not respect gtk-key-theme=emacs keybindings

[James Ferguson]

Almost all text areas in Ubuntu apart from in the Dash respect the gconf setting /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme = "Emacs", to have the emacs directional navigation keys (ctrl-p, ctrl-n, ctrl-f, ctrl-b for up, down, right, left, among others).

Those of us who don't like to move off the home keys would really, really appreciate it if this worked in the dash. It's great that I can summon it by tapping Super and start typing, but then having to shift around with the arrows spoils it. We keyboard heads love launching apps from the keyboard with minimal effort, e.g. with Gnome-Do.

[James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)]

James Ferguson, I couldn't get this working at all. Is this setting working in your unity install on 10.10?

[James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)]

Nevermind, comment #1 is not a bug in unity at all, but in using gconf instead of gsettings. For anyone that found this bug that wants to fix the problem, the magic cmd line string is:

 gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs"

Acquired from bug #812595

[James Ferguson (jamesf)]

- though it still doesn't work in Unity in 11.10.

[Alexandre Provencio (alexandreprovencio)]

This is something I really miss, especially c-w, c-h and c-m.
Should this (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/926783) be marked as a dup?

[Anmar Oueja (anmar)]

I just marked 926783 as dup.