Re: Alt Mouse Modifier (from digest)

[Alexey Rusakov <ktirf altlinux org>]

David Neary wrote:

> Alexey Rusakov wrote:
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> > Elijah Newren wrote:
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> >
> > > > > Just a me-too on how unfortunate the Alt modifier
> > > > > thing for window moving is.  I know of at least
> > > > > one major piece of third-party software that uses
> > > > > Alt as a modifier for certain mouse operations,
> > > > > and it's been doing so since long before Gnome
> > > > > stole it for window movement.
> > > > >          
> > > Maya?  Or is there another?
> > >      
> > Meld, the diff tool for GNOME. Don't know about GIMP, btw.
> >    
> Yes, the GIMP does this too, for (among other things) moving selection 
> boundaries without moving their contents. And yes, we've worked around 
> it (Ctrl-Alt does the same thing).
>  
Well, actually Meld has a workaround too (Shift), so this is not a problem.

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 Alexey "Ktirf" Rusakov