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diff --git a/src/jalview/util/Platform.java b/src/jalview/util/Platform.java
index 2c2c081..a5bee7c 100644
--- a/src/jalview/util/Platform.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/Platform.java
@@ -29,11 +29,23 @@ import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
  */
 public class Platform
 {
-  private static Boolean isAMac = null, isWindows = null;
+  private static Boolean isAMac = null, isWindows = null, isLinux = null;
 
   private static Boolean isHeadless = null;
 
   /**
+   * added to check LaF for Linux
+   * 
+   * @return
+   */
+  public static boolean isLinux()
+  {
+    return (isLinux == null
+            ? (isLinux = (System.getProperty("os.name").indexOf("Linux") >= 0))
+            : isLinux);
+  }
+
+  /**
    * sorry folks - Macs really are different
    * 
    * @return true if we do things in a special way.
@@ -87,23 +99,15 @@ public class Platform
   }
 
   /**
-   * escape a string according to the local platform's escape character
+   * Answers the input with every backslash replaced with a double backslash (an
+   * 'escaped' single backslash)
    * 
-   * @param file
-   * @return escaped file
+   * @param s
+   * @return
    */
-  public static String escapeString(String file)
+  public static String escapeBackslashes(String s)
   {
-    StringBuffer f = new StringBuffer();
-    int p = 0, lastp = 0;
-    while ((p = file.indexOf('\\', lastp)) > -1)
-    {
-      f.append(file.subSequence(lastp, p));
-      f.append("\\\\");
-      lastp = p + 1;
-    }
-    f.append(file.substring(lastp));
-    return f.toString();
+    return s == null ? null : s.replace("\\", "\\\\");
   }
 
   /**
@@ -139,15 +143,17 @@ public class Platform
       {
         return false;
       }
-      return (jalview.util.ShortcutKeyMaskExWrapper.getMenuShortcutKeyMaskEx() // .getMenuShortcutKeyMaskEx()
-              & e.getModifiersEx()) != 0; // getModifiers()) != 0;
+      return (jalview.util.ShortcutKeyMaskExWrapper
+              .getMenuShortcutKeyMaskEx() // .getMenuShortcutKeyMaskEx()
+              & jalview.util.ShortcutKeyMaskExWrapper
+                      .getModifiersEx(e)) != 0; // getModifiers()) != 0;
     }
     return e.isControlDown();
   }
 
   /**
-   * A (case sensitive) file path comparator that ignores the difference between /
-   * and \
+   * A (case sensitive) file path comparator that ignores the difference between
+   * / and \
    * 
    * @param path1
    * @param path2