On Thursday 27 March 2008 19:50:05 Andrew Allison wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 19:22 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 27 March 2008 18:05:00 Andrew Allison wrote: > > > Just a note to the list for posterity: > > > > > > Found this gem buried in the help files under the delete section > > > > > > If your using KDE you need to modify the Alt key operation in the > > > control center. If you don't you'll never (well if you click often > > > enough) be able draw a second road /way without it connecting to the > > > first one. > > > > > > http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Josm-under-Linux > > > > Could you spell that out for us? What exactly do we look for in > > kcontrol, and to what should we change it? > > > > Anne > > Hello, fellow Linux user, having the same problem as me. JOSM kept > wanting to extend a road when I wanted a new road? > I did a test run a few weeks ago, then family issues got in the way, so I'm gearing up to starting afresh.
> I only had 2 choices from the drop down box so I picked Meta. > > > Here's the detailed steps. > > I clicked on > Control Center from the menu this brought up KDE Control Center > Then the second option down on the left menu was Desktop > Clicking on the plus sign expanded a sub menu. > Then I clicked on Window Behavior (fifth one down) > This brought up a tabbed window > The third tab to the right is Window Actions > In the drop down box beside Modifier Key (forth drop down menu box down) > I changed if from ALT to Meta (the only other choice) > I thought I had been through kcontrol, but I'd missed it. Thanks for the pointer. > Once you make the change, the Apply button will illuminate in the bottom > right. You can now hit Apply and the File and Quit. > > > P.S. I'm NO expert. I've only been using JOSM for about 1 week and it's > driving me crazy. > > I'm creating a wiki page / Notes to my self on how JOSM works. > You can take a look here. This is a work in progress > > http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/HowTo/JOSM-under-Linux > I'll take a look at that in the morning, thanks. It's getting late and the brain gets soggy :-) Anne
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