Re: [mylar-users] Alt-Click not working in Linux?

[Ian Bull <irbull@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I like the Esc over the arrow key, because the arrow key also scrolls 
the view horizontally.  If you have a deep nested view (or Java elements 
with long names) this really messes up the view.

Cheers,
Ian

Mik Kersten wrote:
> Ian has outlined why this fails on Linux, and it looks like we won't be able
> to use the Alt modifier because X uses that to grab the current Window, see
> discussion on:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=116948
>
> The work-around Ian found is to use the Windows key along with Alt, but
> that's also problematic because not all keyboards have it (e.g. ThinkPads).
> We can't use a Ctrl/Shift +Alt combination because those invoke disjoint or
> range selections in the tree.
>
> So what do we do for Linux?  The only other common modifier left seems to be
> Esc.  The other option is to say that on Linux you have to use the right
> arrow key to show filtered (since that has the same behavior).  But I would
> really prefer to have the same UI under both Linux and Windows.
>
> Mik
>
>   
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mylar-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-users-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Bull
> > Sent: November 17, 2005 8:49 AM
> > To: Mylar user discussions
> > Subject: Re: [mylar-users] Alt-Click not working in Linux?
> >
> > There are a few test cases that fail under linux.  We are looking into
> > that this week.  I use Mylar under linux, but I have never experienced
> > this.  Although, I don't think I have used this feature.  I will try it
> > out today for you and report.
> >
> > If you open a bug for this, I will report my findings there.
> >
> > cheers,
> > ian
> >
> > Andy Kappen wrote:
> >     
> > > I have mylar 1.4.1 installed under eclipse linux 3.2M3 and have been
> > > experiencing a problem with the Alt-click method for viewing the
> > > "non-interesting" members in a mylar-shaded view.  To sum it up,
> > > Alt-click does nothing in linux.  Is this a known problem?  Is there a
> > > workaround?  Anyone using mylar with linux eclipse out there?
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