Re: [mylar-dev] Alt+Click on Linux

[Ian Bull <irbull@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nathan,

This has come up before, for a complete discussion see:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=116948

Cheers,
Ian

Nathan Hapke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sure I'm not the first one to run into this problem:
>
> On Linux by default holding alt and clicking (more specifically 
> dragging) moves windows around the screen.  This overrides Mylar's 
> alt+click in the package explorer to show un-interesting items.
>
> To disable the alt+drag to move:
>
> (I did this on Gnome 2.14.0 for the record)
>
> - open a terminal and run gconf-editor
> Go into: /apps/metacity/general
>
> and edit the mouse_button_modifier field. Setting it to nothing 
> disables it. You can use <Super> to set it to the windows key.
>
> Exit gconf-editor, and you're good to go.
>
> Background info: Metacity is the window manager that gnome (and maybe 
> other desktop environments use, I don't know) uses by default, which 
> handles mouse and keyboard input.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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