[Bf-docboard] Page Update (Doc:2.6/Manual/Introduction/Installing Blender/Linux)

[Tibor Futo]

Added window manager specification:

Ubuntu 12.04 >>>>(Unity/Gnome)<<<<:  Command line (effective at next
login): gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences
mouse-button-modifier 'none'


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Tibor Futo <tiborfuto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu by default uses Unity, which is a Gnome Shell.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28user_interface%29
>
> Blender uses the Alt button for three button mouse emulation. I suggest
> not changing the default keybinding for Blender's Alt-Click behavior for
> three button mouse emulation. Linux's screen grabbing for Alt-Click is
> pretty stupid But, what developers could do is: not propagating the
> Alt-Click to the OS. That way Alt-Click would work in Blender, but no OS
> setting modification would be neccessary.
>
> My guess is that most Blender users are using Ubuntu for the latest video
> drivers, and most people use a Gnome derivative as a desktop. So I do not
> really get your KDE comment :-).
>
> T.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> KDE on Sabyon 10. I assume it is the same on all other KDE systems.
>> Got it. Click system settings -> window Behavior -> Window Actions ->
>> modifier key: Meta
>> Save settings.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The manual is not clear. Should blender be changed to super or should
>> > the windows manager?
>> > Blender uses alt-click? but which one? All of them? I am trying to fix
>> > this in KDE Sabayon 10.
>> > Thanks. I will report how I did it when I do.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Tibor Futo <tiborfuto at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Here we go:
>> >>
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Introduction/Installing_Blender/Linux
>> >>
>> >> Added: "Ubuntu 12.04: Command line (effective at next login):
>> gsettings set
>> >> org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier 'none' "
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Do you have a link to that? It drives me mad. :-)
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Tibor Futo <tiborfuto at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> > Added Ubuntu 12.04 command line to disable Alt-Click behavior.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Tibor
>> >>> >
>> >>> > _______________________________________________
>> >>> > Bf-docboard mailing list
>> >>> > Bf-docboard at blender.org
>> >>> > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Douglas E Knapp
>> >>>
>> >>> Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies
>> >>> with open source software!
>> >>> http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php
>> >>>
>> >>> Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer:
>> >>> http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm
>> >>> Please link to me and trade links with me!
>> >>>
>> >>> Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project.
>> >>> http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
>> >>> http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/
>> >>> _______________________________________________
>> >>> Bf-docboard mailing list
>> >>> Bf-docboard at blender.org
>> >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >> Bf-docboard mailing list
>> >> Bf-docboard at blender.org
>> >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Douglas E Knapp
>> >
>> > Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies
>> > with open source software!
>> > http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php
>> >
>> > Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer:
>> > http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm
>> > Please link to me and trade links with me!
>> >
>> > Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project.
>> > http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
>> > http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Douglas E Knapp
>>
>> Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies
>> with open source software!
>> http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php
>>
>> Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer:
>> http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm
>> Please link to me and trade links with me!
>>
>> Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project.
>> http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
>> http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bf-docboard mailing list
>> Bf-docboard at blender.org
>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/attachments/20121218/c2b40a8c/attachment.htm