Re: Alt Mouse Modifier (from digest)

[David Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi,

Alexey Rusakov wrote:
> Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > > 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).

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
bolsh gimp org
Lyon, France