[Gimp-user] Alt Key

[Thomas Worthington]

I've just reverted to 2.2

2.4 has too many problems to bother with; the alt key is the final straw.

TW


On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:42:29 -0000, Sven Neumann <sven at gimp.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 21:18 +0000, Thomas Worthington wrote:
>
>> It's not a "problem" either with window managers nor Linux - the  
>> alt-mouse
>> behaviour is standard and well established; it's a problem with the Gimp
>> (assuming it can't be changed).
>
> Applications such as GIMP used to use this modifier key long before some
> window managers started to grab it for their purpose.
>
>> >> How do I tell Gimp to use another shift-type key for that action?
>
> It usually helps to press Shift together with Alt if you want the Alt
> key to end up being seen by the application.
>
> Anyway, there is no action in GIMP that absolutely requires use of the
> Alt modifier. So if you can't change your window manager key-bindings
> and Shift-Alt doesn't work, you should still be able to use all
> functionality.
>
>
> Sven
>
>