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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Jul 4, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Garth Corral <gcorral@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 4, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Garth Corral <gcorral@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 7/1/2015 4:17 PM, Garth Corral wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> While I agree with you in principal, can you imagine what a mess our hot
>>> key definition code would look like if we had to avoid window manager
>>> key mappings for every Linux WM?  Good luck with that.  AFAIK, there is
>>> no wxWidgets code for determining WM key mapping so fixing the mapping
>>> at run time is also not likely.  That being said, if you run into an
>>> issue, please send a patch with the requisite #ifdef/#endif wrapped OSX
>>> specific key mappings.
>> 
>> So, any thoughts, OS X folks?  It would be nice if the canvas switching had hotkeys that worked out of the box.
>> 
>> Garth
> 
> Here’s a patch to use Alt-F9,Alt-F11,Alt-F12 on OS X.  Please apply if others agree.
> 
> 
> <osx_canvas_hotkeys.patch>

Oh, those alt-keys are perfectly fine for me.

-a