GTK 2 for Debian ---------------- Static libraries ================ Statically linking GTK into a program is no longer supported. Key binding =========== gnome-settings-daemon overrides gtk-key-theme-name in your gtkrc. so if you use GNOME 2, it won't work, and it's not a bug. Please use gnome-keybinding-properties instead of gtk-key-theme-name in your gtkrc. Emacs-style key bindings ======================== Gtk provides a way of configuring key bindings in Gtk Widgets, especially to move the cursor in text fields. The default behavior in older Gtk versions was similar to Emacs, and still available for users to configure. You can configure the Emacs-style key binding theme in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file as follows: gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" Please note that applications can still override this configuration, and this is the case of the GNOME Desktop: gnome-settings-daemon loads the key theme from the "/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme" GConf entry. This can be modified with gconf-editor. This file is the initial work of Akira TAGOH and was updated by Loic Minier .