Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:55:10PM -0600, Albert Wagner wrote:
I have just installed 0.44 and am progressing through the Help->tutorials. I notice that all references to the Alt key actually require Ctrl+Alt to have the desired effect. e.g. Alt+drag doesn't work, but Ctrl+Alt+drag does. Is this a change in 0.44 that the tutorial has not yet reflected? Or is there some tuning that I have yet to do?
See the discussion on inkscape-devel a couple weeks ago about this.
Short story is that your window manager is probably configured to use Alt+mouse for some other function (moving windows perhaps). You should probably reconfigure your window manager to use the Meta- (aka Windows-) key instead of Alt- for these shortcuts.
Yes. I am running Ubuntu/Gnome Linux which uses Alt-drag for moving a window by click-dragging anywhere in the window. Thank you.
I modified the Inkscape documentation and tutorials to make folks more aware of the issue; you're not the first to have gotten confused about this.
Bryce