linux wm conflicts with Eagle

[justDIY]

I'm having a heckuva time here, hopefully the linux/unix gurus out there can help!

I recently put together a machine, and went with ubuntu linux instead of windows. I'm trying hard to make it work rather than give up and go with windows!

when I'm drawing in eagle, often times I like to use the ALT key to switch to the fine grid mode when routing a trace or moving a part. I'm having a few problems however:

1) I hold down alt first, I can't left click
2) If I click first to move the part, and then hold down ALT, I can't click to release the part unless I let go of ALT, and then the part snaps back to the coarse grid
3) I can't get the traces to snap to their connection points ... in windows this happened almost automaticly, or sometimes I could help it by holding ALT while double clicking, no dice under gnome

any ideas? I'm gonna try some differnet window managers but I'm skeptical!

 

[hjames]

Alt keys are usually used by the window manager - being able to move windows around by alt-clicking anywhere in the window is a really useful feature. Gnome should have some control panel settings - worst case there's the "gconf-editor" which you can use to modify the registry-like settings.

Most window managers use the alt key for various nefarious purposes, so you'll have to check the WM documentation to see if there is a workaround.