2010/1/3 Hans-Peter Diettrich <[email protected]>: > > What's the expected result of this procedure? Nothing happens with the > clicked window on my openSUSE/KDE, at least it doesn't move with the > mouse.
It allows you to drag a window around on the desktop - just like you can do with the title bar. The nice thing of Left_Alt+Left_mousebutton_click is that you can drag and reposition windows, even if you can't see the titlebar, and you can click anywhere in that window. > But the window manager seems to have entered some special state, I don't know about that, but Left_Alt+Click has worked since (I'm guessing here) the last 10+ years. There are many other such options too: * Left Alt + middle mouse button = resize a window while dragging the mouse. Resizing behaviour is based on where in the window you click. * Left Alt + right mouse button = brings up the system menu * etc.. Most if not all X11 window managers implement these features. It's one of those "always been available" yet hidden to new users features - similar to the select text and middle mouse click to paste (separate clipboard is used compared to Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V) -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
