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To move down one menu item within a menu, press the down-arrow
key.
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To move up one menu item within a menu, press the up-arrow key.
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To choose a menu item, type the character in the menu item label
that is underlined. Or, move to the menu item using the arrow keys
and then press the <RETURN> key on the keyboard.
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To cancel a displayed menu, press the Escape key.
The interface supports keyboard mnemonics and the use of the arrow keys to
move within or between menus. For each menu or menu item, the
underlined character in the menu or menu item label is the keyboard
mnemonic character. Notice the keyboard mnemonic is not always the first
character of the label. If a menu item has a cascade menu attached to it, then
typing the keyboard mnemonic displays the cascade menu.
Some menu items have an ellipsis ("...") as part of the menu label. An ellipsis
indicates that the menu item will display a dialog or other box when the
menu item is chosen.
Dialog boxes support the use of the keyboard as well. To direct keyboard
input to a dialog box, you must position the mouse pointer somewhere inside
the boundaries of the dialog box. That is because the interface keyboard
focus policy is set to pointer. That just means that the window containing
the mouse pointer receives the keyboard input.
In addition to keyboard mnemonics, you can also specify keyboard
accelerators which are keyboard shortcuts for selected menu items. Refer to
the "Setting X Resources" chapter and the "Softkey.Input" scheme file for
more information about setting the X resources that control defining
keyboard accelerators.
To choose a pulldown menu item using the keyboard
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