I feel like a real noob asking, but I have had problems using any ctrl shortcuts under GNOME in renoise (copy function in the tracker, or the ctrl-t new track option, or in the sample editor the ctrl-x cut and ctrl-c copy etc)
Oddly enough, ctrl-v pastes! Pressing CTRL-X though, plays the sample selected as a “D” as if I wasn’t pressing ctrl at all and trying to just play the sample as piano keys.
I have found if I run KDE I don’t have this problem. Is there a solution to this that doesn’t involve switching window managers?
If you have running a keyboard manager in the background that also has global shortcuts, they overrule any of the running application shortcuts, so your Gnome configuration must have running such option if KDE resolves your problem.
Perhaps looking in your Gnome Keyboard configuration?
Okay, so after asking on the forums, I finally figured out what was going on, and I’m not sure this is a bug or a feature
The issue is not specifically in the keyboard settings, but the mouse settings in GNOME. If you enable the checkbox under the System -> administration -> mouse that says “show position of pointer when the control key is pressed”, this causes renoise not to register quite a few of it’s shortcuts that involve the CTRL key. I had this enabled because sometimes the icon set on my PC would get messed up and the “loading” cursor would not show up, making my mouse disappear.
CTRL would show me where it went, but that GNOME feature apparently breaks renoise too
Okay, does this happen in more applications that run under Gnome?
If the phenomenon turns up with answers in more forums, it might be a bug in the Gnome mouse configuration method or it may as well be a conflict that may be circumvented…
I’ll move this to the bug-report forum and we’ll find out if this is a fixable issue or a can’ t-fix
