What happened with ALT?

Robin Pedersen robinpeder at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 17:36:48 BST 2009


On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:54:45 +0200, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:

> On 23.04.09 16:35:30, Robin Pedersen wrote:
>> Hello, I'm new to this list, so sorry if the question has been asked
>> before...
>>
>> Earlier in the trunk version (kdevelop4), holding down the alt key would
>> bring up the tooltip navigation thing, which allowed code navigation  
>> with
>> alt+arrow keys+enter. This doesn't seem to work anymore. What happened?
>> Is another key supposed to be used, or could it be something wrong on my
>> system?
>
> Works fine for me here. I think the actual trigger is Meta which is  
> usually
> mapped to Alt, but maybe be mapped differently on your keyboard layout.
>
> Andreas
>

Strange. Could it have anything to do with alt being used as "Modifier  
key" in kwin (which is the default). I'm currently at home, and not able  
to investigate further at work where I had the problem. However, I'm  
compiling on my laptop now, to see if it works here.

-- 
Robin Pedersen




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