I've spent a full day trying to figure out why the letter-spacing and line-height commands (Alt+<, Alt+>) are not working under Linux. I'm running OpenSuSE 10.2, with Inkscape 0.45.1, but no matter what I do, the only thing Alt+< does is put commas and periods in my text.
I tried the text section Inkscape Advanced tutorial. Manual kerning shortcuts work (Alt+arrows), but letter-spacing (Alt+<, Alt+>) and line height (Control+Alt+<, Control+Alt+>) do not work, it only places commas or periods, as if the shortcut didn't exist. Outside of text edit mode, Alt+< and Alt+> perform a uniform scaling.
I've already changed my GNOME Keybindings away from using ALT as a modifier (it was conflicting with Maya).
I've checked the default.xml keys file and I don't see any mention of an action for letterspacing/line height, so it doesn't seem like I can change it.
And I tested 0.45.1 under Windows and the commands work perfectly fine. I'm thinking it could be the build, but I doubt it - it was installed via the autopackage from the Inkscape website.
I would gladly appreciate some help on this situation! Thank you!