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Using Keyboard Traversal


Motif applications that are OSF/Motif Style Guide compliant must support methods for interaction that do not depend on a mouse. For the purposes of keyboard navigation, components of the application are organized into groups called fields. To move the input focus forward from one field to the next, press . To move the input focus in the reverse direction, press . Use the arrow keys to move the input focus among components within a field.

Menu navigation in Motif applications uses special key bindings, which are summarized in the following list:

Applications may also use page navigation keys to scroll a region one page at a time. Appendix A contains the default OSF/Motif key bindings.