Odd. Those keyboard shortcuts work okay for me with Firefox 2.0.0.3 and GNOME Bianca.
Does everything look kosher in your Bianca > Preferences > Keyboard setup?
All else failing, have you considered mouse gestures? I don't leave Home without them.
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It's possible to tweak your keyboard operation in specific and low-level ways, but I've only just begun to look at how that's done properly (i.e. without causing my X server to have fits).Any way to re-enable the right Alt key?
For example, I found that the Firefox shortcuts did work with my lefthand ALT key (LALT), but did not with my righthand ALT key (RALT), so I had the opposite of your situation. This had no practical impact on my use of the keyboard (as I don't normally use RALT), but I went snooping into the keyboard configuration section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and found the following...
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
That code meddles with my RALT key in a way that's meaningless to me, so I disabled that option (I put a # at the start of the line), and now my RALT key works as expected. A fix for your glitch might be as simple.
I've taken a quick peek at various config files in GNOME Bianca, and I see keyboard definitions that are specific to Sony and others, but I don't yet know how those might be applied.
Just a matter of time til this Linux n00b susses it out, though.
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For folk who have this same glitch and need a step-by-step HOWTO undo...
To edit the xorg.conf file in superuser mode, go Terminal and type...
(KDE users may need to type sudo kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf instead).
Do a CTRL-F and search for "ralt_switch". If you find code that looks like what's in my previous post, then comment-out the option by putting a # at the start of the text line. Like so...
Then save the file, close gedit (or kate) and all of your other open apps, and restart your PC so that the change in configuration can take effect cleanly.
UPDATE: I booted the Bianca KDE Beta 020 LiveCD and found it has the same problem, and that the fix described here works.
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To edit the xorg.conf file in superuser mode, go Terminal and type...
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gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.confDo a CTRL-F and search for "ralt_switch". If you find code that looks like what's in my previous post, then comment-out the option by putting a # at the start of the text line. Like so...
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# Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"UPDATE: I booted the Bianca KDE Beta 020 LiveCD and found it has the same problem, and that the fix described here works.
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