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:
traverses to and from
the MenuBar
or
posts and cancels Popup menus in areas that have Popup
menus
and <Select>
activate Option Menus.
backs out of a menu
hierarchy.
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.