Re: alt key feature request

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Tim Cuthbertson <tim gfxmonk net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:00 AM, philip ballinger <p b eyemotions com> wrote:
>> i have been looking around in dconf-editor and "region and language" option
>> screen for a feature that was called "movement key" under gnome 2... - the
>> description was "to move a window, press and hold this key then grab the
>> window: Alt / Super". i need the old fashioned alt key behavior back to be
>> able to work with autodesk's maya / mudbox in gnome shell.
>>
>> thanks, phil
>
> What exactly do you want? As far as I know it works exactly the same
> by default in gnome 3. I always use alt + click to move a window, alt
> + middle-click to resize, and I'm pretty sure that's the default.

I assume he's asking how to change that to the middle mouse button.

It's still in gconf, because metacity/mutter hasn't been ported to
gsettings yet, although that's in progress.

The gconf key you want is: "/apps/metacity/general/resize_with_right_button"

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  Jasper