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

[Tibor Futo]

I am new to this list. Is there a way to survey users' configuration?

No clue about Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu...

Probably you should add your fix to the documentation, making as generic as
possible, for KDE.

T.


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Tibor Futo <tiborfuto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I know a LOT of KDE users. I would think Ubuntu is bigger but there
> are plenty of KDE users.
> My kde Sabayon is using Nvidia 310.19
> Is Ubuntu more up to date?
>
> My fix for kde is EASY just change the KDE system key to the meta key.
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