Sorry for the delay; Christmas and trying to move house do not mix well.
There is documentation for changing the mod key that Inkscape treats as "Alt" on the 0.46 under "Using other keys in place of Alt" and in the FAQ under "How to make Alt+click and Alt+drag work on Linux?"
The defualt value, which used to be hardcoded, is 1 and that should equate to Alt on most systems. In your example I would expect that setting mapalt to 2 to allow pressing the meta keys to activate anything which is documented as using the Alt key.
For example, on my Linux machine I'm using an IBM model-M keyboard with AltGr, which I've set to map to Meta_R and mod3, so I set mapalt in my preferences file to 3. Now I can hold down AltGr and have Inkscape treat it as the Alt key (which I can't use as my window manager uses it for various functions).
I assume that your keyboard doesn't have any keys actually labeled "Meta", so a first step would be to find out which key(s) are being treated as Meta and work from there.
The object of the mapalt code is not to get Alt working but to let something else act as Alt if you can't use Alt in an app shortcut, which many Linux users can't
Does that help?
Thomas
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:55:52 -0000, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote:
On 2007-December-15 , at 17:20 , Thomas Worthington wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:54:12 -0000, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote:
- What about the Alt remapping hack. I could find a patch o the
mailing list but nothing after that. I think it was applied though so how could I use it?
It's in SVN so you might me able to use it. There is documentation on the Wiki but in essence if you know which modifier flags are being set by your keyboard you can tell Inkscape to treat the one you want as the Alt key. If you have xkeycaps then that information is listed with the keys. Once you know what you want to set it to the option is set (by hand) in the preference file under:
<Group="options">
<group id="mapalt" vlaue="x">
where x is the value you want and can range from 1 to 5
Sorry I can't find it on the wiki. Would you mind pointing the page please? I don't have xkeycaps but $ xmodmap -pm xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x40), Shift_R (0x44) lock Caps_Lock (0x41) control Control_L (0x43), Control_R (0x46) mod1 Mode_switch (0x42), Mode_switch (0x45) mod2 Meta_L (0x3f), Meta_R (0x47) mod3 mod4 mod5
So apparently I should remap mod number 1 to Alt:
<group id="options"> <group id="mapalt" value="1">
However this is what was already in my preferences.xml and Alt still has no effect. Any idea why?
Thanks for your help.
PS: my current setup, with an ~.Xmodmap and which works is: And with my current setup: $ xmodmap -pm xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x40), Shift_R (0x44) lock Caps_Lock (0x41) control Control_L (0x43), Control_R (0x46) mod1 Alt_L (0x42), Alt_R (0x45) mod2 Meta_L (0x3f), Meta_R (0x47) mod3 mod4 mod5
JiHO