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Disable Help Brower in GNOME

Asked by Matthew Craig on 2007-11-15

How do I disable the Help Browser in GNOME? I have already tried changing the Preference->Shortcuts menu to "Launch Help Browser" to Disabled. This does not disable the feature anywhere. My F1 key is right next to my ESC key, so I end up launching the browser often, by accident. I very rarely use the help, so I just want it to go away. Any suggestions? Do you think I found a bug in GNOME?

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2007-11-16
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Chess Griffin (griffinc) said : #1

One way is to run gconf-editor and go into /apps/gnome-terminal/keybindings and look for the "help" key and change the keybinding from F1 to something that works better.

Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig) said : #2

Does this work on your system? It has no effect on mine. I have tried to change it to "disabled" and "F4", even restarted X each time, and the changes had no effect. F1 continued to bring up the Help Browser.

Chess Griffin (griffinc) said : #3

Sorry, I think I had the wrong conf key. I am not at my machine at the moment. I think it might be in /apps/gnome-sessions-daemon/keybindings. Try deleting that key and logging out/logging in. You may want to write down what's there in case it does not work. I know this is somewhere in gconf because I have done it before.

Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig) said : #4

First, thanks very much for your help. But, the /apps/gnome-settings-daemon/keybindings/help (I assume you mean settings, not sessions) was already set to disabled through the GUI interface Preferences->Shortcuts. So -- still no fix.

Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig) said : #5

bingoUV said in the forums:

Yes, it does seem like a bug in gnome. As a workaround, do the following

sudo mv /usr/bin/yelp /usr/bin/yelp1
sudo echo "echo 1" > /usr/bin/yelp
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/yelp

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3777542#post3777542