From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 25 2005 - 12:49:18 CDT

Jian,
  Which version of Windows are you running? Can you email me the exact
"user add key" commands you're trying to use on your machine that you're
having problems with? I'll test the default hotkey combinations on my
XP test machines here and see if there's a problem on my machines or not.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:44:12PM +0800, Jian Zou wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed vmd-1.8.3 windows version, however I found that some of
> the predefined hotkeys cannot work properly, most of which are some
> combination of keys such as "Ctrl-a", "Shift-g", "Alt-f".
>
> If the hotkey contains only a character, such as "x y z", it will work. ("X
> Y Z" also works, yet "G" does not).
>
> It seems that the cmd used as vmd-console may only recognize a single key
> of the combination.
>
> Did someone encounter this kind of problems before?
> Does anybody know to solve the problem?
>
> Thank you so much for you advice.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jian Zou

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