Evince

Pressing 'A' in search dialog triggers open file? A bug? Open?

Asked by markballermann

If I press 'a' while using the search function in evince, it stops and tries to open a file.

Should just let me search for whatever with the letter 'a'

Changing the keyboard shortcut for 'open file' would probably fix it. Using ubuntu(feisty).

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Istvan Szekeres (szekeres) said : 		#1

Hello,

Could you give more details about this? I could not trigger this "bug?".

Normally the shortcut for opening a file is Ctrl-O. If you select the leftmost menuitem ("File"), what shortcut is there by the "Open" menu item? It should be Ctrl-O.

Also what you described is not really clear for me. When you press Ctrl-F, a search bar should appear at the bottom of the window where you can type the search string. If you type e.g. the letter "s" there, it appears in the input box, bot if you press "a", it does not appear but instead the file open dialog window is opened?

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markballermann (mark-ballermann) said : 		#2

Hi Istvan,
Strange, on mine it says A next to open, rather than Control-O.
Your description is correct.
I upgraded from edgy, which may be part of the problem, I'll looking through .gnome to see if there's something in there that defines the shortcut.

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markballermann (mark-ballermann) said : 		#3

Sorry about the extra post.. .gnome2/evince only had my history of docs, nothing that seemed helpful.
Here's a screenshot of the file menu:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~mb22/evince-screenshot.png

I tried removing and reinstalling:
sudo aptitude remove evince
sudo aptitude install evince
but that didn't help

Maybe helpful, the version number from aptitude:
evince_0.8.1-0ubuntu1_i386

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Best Istvan Szekeres (szekeres) said : 		#4

Hello,

Try looking at .gnome2/accels/evince , the "A" should be there somewhere!

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markballermann (mark-ballermann) said : 		#5

Thanks Istvan Szekeres, that solved my question.