This problem has been discussed many times before. I think the consensus every time was that it's rather presumptuous for a OS to entirely disable one of the three traditional modifiers entirely for OS's own needs, and that it makes a lot more sense for the OS to change its ways and use the Windows key for moving windows instead.
On 8/3/07, Thomas Worthington <tww@...1737...> wrote:
An awful lot of Inkscape's functions (I notice that the new touch selection is another one) seem to be relying on the alt-key being held down and various things done with the mouse. To say that this is a pain under Linux is an understatement since alt-mouse is used by window managers to allow quick manipulation of window sizes and positions, which is vital on large screens. Given that Inkscape is only one app and alt-mouse is effectively in use by every other app on the system for something else, is there any easy way to change these shortcuts to something like meta-mouse or something (anything!) else?
Is it the case that most Inkscape developers are using Windows and are simply not aware of how difficult these alt-mouse shortcuts make it for Linux users?
Thomas Worthington
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