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?
On 1/17/07, Albert Wagner <albertwagner@...715...> 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?
Not sure if this applies to your situation, but maybe some other app that is running already controls the Alt keybindings. I know that I couldn't get the Ctrl-Scrollwheel to do any zooming because I'm running Beryl and it wouldn't work until I changed the keybinding in Beryl to something else.
Richard Querin wrote:
On 1/17/07, *Albert Wagner* <albertwagner@...715... mailto:albertwagner@...715...> 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?Not sure if this applies to your situation, but maybe some other app that is running already controls the Alt keybindings. I know that I couldn't get the Ctrl-Scrollwheel to do any zooming because I'm running Beryl and it wouldn't work until I changed the keybinding in Beryl to something else.
Thanks, Richard. I'm pretty sure it's my window manager.
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.
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
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
For Ubuntu/Gnome Linux:
System->Preferences->Windows
In this dialog, under the heading "Movement Key", select "Super(Windows)" rather than the default "Alt".
If you use the Alt-drag to move windows, then you should now use "Super(Windows)-drag" to acheive the same effect.
This change frees Alt-drag for use in Inkscape.
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