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[Garth Corral <gcorral@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Cmd-C issue may well be a wxWidgets bug, but it is still an issue for kicad users.  There are many such issues in kicad where OS X specific issues must be worked around.

As for the window manager capturing the functions keys, yes, that is what I said.  The fact that F10 was skipped for canvas switching means that kicad is catering to a specific platform.  I’m not likely to switch window managers on OS X, nor are other OS X users.  Yes we could remap our keys but why should we?  This should work out of the box.

Garth


> On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:22 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Le 01/07/2015 20:38, Garth Corral a écrit :
>> While we’re on the topic.  There are other places where hotkeys are
>> less than optimal on OS X.  For example, F11 and F12 are taken for OS
>> functions and never reach kicad, so selecting the canvases has to be
>> done through the menus.  Conversely, Cmd-C in kicad launches the
>> calculator, so you can’t copy from the python console.  These are
>> just a couple I’ve noticed recently, I’m sure there are many more
>> such issues.
>> 
>> Garth
>> 
> 
> I am thinking you are confused by wxWidgets issues and Kicad issues.
> 
> The mere fact you cannot copy using Cmd-C from the python console is a
> curious wxWidgets bug (specific to OSX) (looks like accelerator keys are
> captured by the wrong window, and not sent to the window which has the
> focus).
> 
> On all systems or window managers, some keys are "captured" by the
> window manager and cannot be used as user commands (for instance F10 on
> Windows).
> Many keys using Alt modifier cannot be freely used as hotkeys (they do
> not work, or they are captured by the window manager).
> 
> All hotkeys are configurable by user, so when a key is not working on a
> given window manager, you can easily remap it.
> 
> The "issue" relative to Ctrl / Cmd is not clear for me.
> 
> Is it just the name "Ctrl" which should be displayed "Cmd" (which is
> rather easy to change) or is it something else ?
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> 
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