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Devastator

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 179

[SOLVED] Blender, problems with ctrl+LMB

Hi,
recently I have found that selecting things by holding ctrl+LMB is broken in Blender. I've been trying to fix this for a month now, but without success. It's pretty annoying thing. It should work like this: you press and hold ctrl+LMB and draw a shape around vertices/edges/faces you want to select - very handful when working with hi-poly models. But it does not work like it should - it behaves as if I release the LMB right after clicking it. If I select the area fast enough (0.1 sec or something), then sometimes I got some things selected, but it is rather annoying.

Does anyone have any idea why holding ctrl+LMB could be broken?

I've tested it on KDE4 and XFCE4.6, so it's not the DE issue. Maybe incorrect xorg settings or something?

Last edited by Devastator (2009-06-28 16:41:10)

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trontonic

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Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 80

Re: [SOLVED] Blender, problems with ctrl+LMB

Have you tested it with a more "to the core" windowmanager, like fvwm2, icewm or wmii?
Did you upgrade Blender before ctrl-lmb stopped working, or was it like this from the start?
To me, it sounds like a windowmanager issue.

Last edited by trontonic (2009-06-23 21:39:21)

Devastator

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 179

Re: [SOLVED] Blender, problems with ctrl+LMB

Perhaps I should try something more lightweight...

This started to occur in some hard to define point in the past - it used to work properly few months ago, but I haven't used Blender very often since then.

P.S.
Okay - you were right. I got rid of KDM and used Slim instead - everything is fine now. Thanks!

Last edited by Devastator (2009-06-24 00:29:41)

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trontonic

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Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 80

Re: [SOLVED] Blender, problems with ctrl+LMB

Good to know. Glad it works for you now.