[SOLVED] Alt locked in Ubuntu 8.10

Bakryuuha · 03-24-2009, 01:11 PM

I'm not really terrific with keyboard shortcuts. I think I pressed something that made the Alt key lock. Now, whenever I click a window, Ubuntu automatically thinks I want to move it somewhere. Anyone have any idea how to get rid of this?

Rome5 · 03-24-2009, 10:15 PM

Try ALT+F7 -- that's the shortcut to move a window in Gnome. If that doesn't work, I would take a look at System > Preferences and look at Keyboard Shortcuts.

Bakryuuha · 03-30-2009, 02:45 PM

This issue has been resolved. After trying what Rome5 said, and still having the problem, I went into my Compiz settings manager, and realized that something had changed the 'grab window' shortcut from 'Alt + Button 1' to just 'Button 1'.

03-24-2009, 01:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bakryuuha Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 76 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1	[SOLVED] Alt locked in Ubuntu 8.10 I'm not really terrific with keyboard shortcuts. I think I pressed something that made the Alt key lock. Now, whenever I click a window, Ubuntu automatically thinks I want to move it somewhere. Anyone have any idea how to get rid of this?

03-24-2009, 10:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
Rome5 Alternative Computing Team Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Denver.CO Posts: 311 OS: Arch linux	Re: Alt locked in Ubuntu 8.10 Try ALT+F7 -- that's the shortcut to move a window in Gnome. If that doesn't work, I would take a look at System > Preferences and look at Keyboard Shortcuts.

03-30-2009, 02:45 PM	#3 (permalink)
Bakryuuha Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 76 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1	Re: Alt locked in Ubuntu 8.10 This issue has been resolved. After trying what Rome5 said, and still having the problem, I went into my Compiz settings manager, and realized that something had changed the 'grab window' shortcut from 'Alt + Button 1' to just 'Button 1'.