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How does the Alt+click work? [message #12481]

Fri, 13 July 2007 18:34

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: xiaoyang.guan.gmail.com

Hi,

In the structured views with "focus on active task" turned on, I suppose
Alt+click on an element will reveal all its uninteresting children.
But when I do that, nothing happened except that the mouse icon turned
into a "+" sign. Alt+Right arrow works as expected, although I found
that just pressing Right Arrow itself also does the same if the view is
wide enough.

Is there any configuration in Preference in order to make Alt+click
work? BTW, I'm on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 6.06) if it's relevant.

Thanks,
Xiaoyang

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Re: How does the Alt+click work? [message #12586 is a reply to message #12481]

Fri, 13 July 2007 19:07

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: beatmik.acm.org

Xiaoyang Guan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the structured views with "focus on active task" turned on, I suppose
> Alt+click on an element will reveal all its uninteresting children. But
> when I do that, nothing happened except that the mouse icon turned into
> a "+" sign. Alt+Right arrow works as expected, although I found that
> just pressing Right Arrow itself also does the same if the view is wide
> enough.
>
> Is there any configuration in Preference in order to make Alt+click
> work? BTW, I'm on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 6.06) if it's relevant.

A short explanation of how it works is here:

http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/tips/

And a longer one here:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_User_Guide#Alt.2BCli ck_navigation

Mik

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Re: How does the Alt+click work? [message #14061 is a reply to message #12586]

Mon, 16 July 2007 19:01

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: xiaoyang.guan.gmail.com

Mik Kersten wrote:
> Xiaoyang Guan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the structured views with "focus on active task" turned on, I
>> suppose Alt+click on an element will reveal all its uninteresting
>> children. But when I do that, nothing happened except that the mouse
>> icon turned into a "+" sign. Alt+Right arrow works as expected,
>> although I found that just pressing Right Arrow itself also does the
>> same if the view is wide enough.
>>
>> Is there any configuration in Preference in order to make Alt+click
>> work? BTW, I'm on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 6.06) if it's relevant.
>
> A short explanation of how it works is here:
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/tips/
>
> And a longer one here:
>
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_User_Guide#Alt.2BCli ck_navigation
>
> Mik

Thanks Mik.

Follow-up: the problem I had was because the window manager uses
Alt+click for moving a window. Setting the window movement key to
something else makes Alt+click navigation in Mylyn work as expected.

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Re: How does the Alt+click work? [message #14143 is a reply to message #14061]

Tue, 17 July 2007 04:37

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: beatmik.acm.org

Xiaoyang Guan wrote:
....
> Follow-up: the problem I had was because the window manager uses
> Alt+click for moving a window. Setting the window movement key to
> something else makes Alt+click navigation in Mylyn work as expected.

Thanks for following up Xiaoyang. The work-around should be described here:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_User_Guide#Installin g_on_Linux

If there's anything lacking it would be great if you could update that
entry.

Mik

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Re: How does the Alt+click work? [message #14160 is a reply to message #14143]

Tue, 17 July 2007 10:23

Jörg Thönnes

Messages: 229
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On 07/17/07 06:37, Mik Kersten wrote:
> Xiaoyang Guan wrote:
> ...
>> Follow-up: the problem I had was because the window manager uses
>> Alt+click for moving a window. Setting the window movement key to
>> something else makes Alt+click navigation in Mylyn work as expected.
>
> Thanks for following up Xiaoyang. The work-around should be described
> here:
>
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_User_Guide#Installin g_on_Linux

More specifically (I wrote that entry ;-) ) here:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_User_Guide#Keyboard_ mappings_on_Linux>

Please consider voting on the Eclipse bug

#55236: Please support SWT.MOD4 on platforms other than the Mac

It is about adding Meta key support to Eclipse (for Linux).

Cheers, Jörg

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Re: How does the Alt+click work? [message #571835 is a reply to message #12481]

Fri, 13 July 2007 19:07

Mik Kersten

Messages: 287
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Xiaoyang Guan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the structured views with "focus on active task" turned on, I suppose
> Alt+click on an element will reveal all its uninteresting children. But
> when I do that, nothing happened except that the mouse icon turned into
> a "+" sign. Alt+Right arrow works as expected, although I found that
> just pressing Right Arrow itself also does the same if the view is wide
> enough.
>
> Is there any configuration in Preference in order to make Alt+click
> work? BTW, I'm on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 6.06) if it's relevant.

A short explanation of how it works is here:

http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/tips/

And a longer one here:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_User_Guide#Alt.2BCli ck_navigation

Mik

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Re: How does the Alt+click work? [message #572363 is a reply to message #12586]

Mon, 16 July 2007 19:01

Xiaoyang Guan

Messages: 5
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Mik Kersten wrote:
> Xiaoyang Guan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the structured views with "focus on active task" turned on, I
>> suppose Alt+click on an element will reveal all its uninteresting
>> children. But when I do that, nothing happened except that the mouse
>> icon turned into a "+" sign. Alt+Right arrow works as expected,
>> although I found that just pressing Right Arrow itself also does the
>> same if the view is wide enough.
>>
>> Is there any configuration in Preference in order to make Alt+click
>> work? BTW, I'm on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 6.06) if it's relevant.
>
> A short explanation of how it works is here:
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/tips/
>
> And a longer one here:
>
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_User_Guide#Alt.2BCli ck_navigation
>
> Mik

Thanks Mik.

Follow-up: the problem I had was because the window manager uses
Alt+click for moving a window. Setting the window movement key to
something else makes Alt+click navigation in Mylyn work as expected.

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Re: How does the Alt+click work? [message #572594 is a reply to message #14061]

Tue, 17 July 2007 04:37

Mik Kersten

Messages: 287
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Xiaoyang Guan wrote:
....
> Follow-up: the problem I had was because the window manager uses
> Alt+click for moving a window. Setting the window movement key to
> something else makes Alt+click navigation in Mylyn work as expected.

Thanks for following up Xiaoyang. The work-around should be described here:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_User_Guide#Installin g_on_Linux

If there's anything lacking it would be great if you could update that
entry.

Mik

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Re: How does the Alt+click work? [message #572614 is a reply to message #14143]

Tue, 17 July 2007 10:23

Jörg Thönnes

Messages: 229
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

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