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Hobin

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Registered: 2011-11-17

Posts: 2

Gnome 3 and moving windows with alt

Hello all,

I'm using ArchLinux with Gnome 3 and play Tibia a lot. Many of you might not know this game, but let's say that it's important that I must be able to use the alt key and click on something to be able to perform a certain ingame action. On default in Gnome, pressing alt and clicking makes you move a window (running the application in fullscreen makes no difference). I know that it was possible in Gnome 2 to change this key-combination, but I have not yet found a way to do this in Gnome 3. Do any of you have some idea I can try?

Thanks,
Hobin

addy

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 29

Re: Gnome 3 and moving windows with alt

Go to Menu > Settings > Keyboard and then double click (or click once more) the shortcut you want to edit.

Hobin

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Registered: 2011-11-17

Posts: 2

Re: Gnome 3 and moving windows with alt

That's the problem. It's not a shortcut. Alt + clicking and moving the mouse does not appear there, nor anywhere else as far as I can see. I know that in Gnome 2 there was an option to change this window dragging functionality from the Alt to the Meta key, but I can't find it in Gnome 3.

FOODy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 5

Re: Gnome 3 and moving windows with alt

You can change the shortcut with the gconf-editor.
The property path is "/apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier".

Or use the commandline: (changes the shortcut to the win-key)

gconftool-2 --type string --set '/apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier' '<Mod4>'