Hi everyone,
On Mac OS X Leopard, the option/alt key is mapped to Mode_switch by default under X11 and this apparently cause it to no longer work as "alt" in Inkscape (the behavior is supposed to be consistent with the previous OS version though I never saw any problem with Alt before. anyway, they changed a lot of stuff on X11 side, not always for the better...). Modifying the ~/.Xmodmap [1] works for me but since Alt is so important in Inkscape I would prefer fixing it upstream rather than asking everyone to modify their ~/.Xmodmap.So my questions are: - what is the difference in essence between Alt and Mode_switch? Mode_switch in particular seems to be used rather inconsistently between the OSes, keyboards etc. - Would there be a problem in using Mode_switch or Alt conversely for all alt based shortcuts in Inkscape? Is it already the case in some places? - 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?
Thanks in advance for your help.
[1] ! This one switches both alt keys to be alt: keycode 66 = Alt_L keycode 69 = Alt_R clear mod1 add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R
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