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[Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>]

Its hard to explain without showing it (video? how can I do it?)
I am now in a Windows machine, but I believe I experience same behaviours on linux.
If I press F11, X, and G
even if the mouse is on a track it will not always start dragging. What happen is the screen get "light down" and nothing is selected, I have to Esc, and X again and press somewhere.. etc and try again X.. G.. etc

For design the pcb board, I was using mostly the default mode and then only switch to openGL to do some specific push&shove situation or adding vias, because for me it is hard to use it for regular track edition.

Regards,
Mario Luzeiro

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From: Maciej Sumiński [maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 April 2015 11:58
To: Mário Luzeiro; KiCad Developers
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] PCB Layouting with OpenGL Mode: What I miss.

On 04/29/2015 11:50 AM, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> Hi Orson,
>
> Ya sorry I (was mistake, I) mean:
>
> Default mode: if you press D it will immediately start Drag Keep slope.
> OpenGL GAL: pressing D or G does nothing, is is very difficult to start drag a track.  I was just testing right now, and I cannot find a pattern sequence to start draging. .usually I do it randomly until I can get it work.
> also, in the test I was doing now trying to start dragging, I manage to crash pcbnew, pressing several times X, G, Esc etc.
>
> Regards,
> Mario Luzeiro

Ok, the problem is clear: there should not be a separate mode for
routing, or at least all hot keys should be handled regardless of the
active mode.

FYI: currently 'X' activates the routing mode, and 'G' drags tracks/vias
(when in routing mode).

It would be also very helpful if you could present steps to crash
pcbnew, so we could fix it.

Regards,
Orson