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How to get Emacs key bindings in Ubuntu

To get the Emacs key bindings (especially, Ctrl-a to go to beginning of line, Ctrl-e to end of line) systemwide, e.g. in Firefox, you use:

gconf-editor

and change the setting desktop → gnome → interface → gtk_key_theme from “Default” to “Emacs”.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 at 13:59 and is filed under Emacs, Linux, misc.. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “How to get Emacs key bindings in Ubuntu”

  1. Brian Says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 18:57

    You get the “You Really Rock” award for most elegant solution to my problem. I just spent the good part of two hours on Google trying to find a solution to this problem, to no avail. And you’re solution worked flawlessly, even in Firefox. Thank you!

  2. Otto Says:
    April 30th, 2012 at 09:03

    Running Xubuntu with Xfce:

    From the Application menu select
    Settings -> Settings Editor -> xsettings -> Gtk -> KeyThemeName
    Click Edit property
    Change value to “Emacs” (w/o quotes)

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