| ID: | 5966 |
| From: | Derek <de...@q40.de> |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:03:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] SCH-RND Message Log message |
| in-reply-to: | 5965 from rn...@igor2.repo.hu |
| replies: | 5967 from rn...@igor2.repo.hu |
Hi Igor2,
Thank you for the information, I am using the the Cinnamon Window
Manager, I checked the preferences for the Windows, which the Window
Focus was selected as CLICK, by changing to Mouse, SCH-RND works as
expected.
Sorry for the non-SCH-RND problem,
Regards,
Derek
On 15/02/2023 11:49, rnd2@igor2.repo.hu wrote:
> Hi Derek,
>
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2023, Derek wrote:
>
>> Hi Igor2,
>>
>> I seem to have another issue, with the Library Window open and a symbol
>> selected into the Paste Buffer, pressing EW to rotate the symbol, doe snot
>> rotate the symbol, but type the EW into the Library window filter box.
>>
>> I have to place the symbol and close the Library Window before the hotkey EW
>> will rotate the symbol.
>>
>> Not sure what is going on.
>
> Sounds like a focus problem, which is related to your window manager (WM).
> Keyboard events are always sent to the one window that has the focus.
> Different WMs change focus differently.
>
> I don't know your window manager, but I guess it changes focus on click.
>
> So when you open the library window, it gets the focus, and keeps focus
> until you click into another window. When you first place your symbol in
> the drawing area, that's a click, which makes your WM change focus to the
> top window.
>
> What you can do is:
>
> - click on the top window, but not on the drawing area, before pressing {e
> w}. For example click on the empty area on the top side, between the menu
> and the top right readouts. This would tell your WM to move focus to the
> top window, while the click on such a neutral place would be ignored by
> sch-rnd
>
> - or if your WM does window decoration, probably clicking the title bar of
> the main window could work too
>
> - use some other means of changing the focus (again totally WM-dependt;
> maybe alt-tab, alt-j/alt-k, maybe clicking on some task bar thing, maybe
> something else)
>
> - close the library window after selecting the symbol; most WMs would then
> put back focus to the previously focused window, which should be sch-rnd
> top window
>
> So all in all, this is a quesiton of your window manager, not sch-rnd. In
> my WM focus follows mouse cursor, so it's enough to hover my mouse into
> the main window and it gets focus.
>
> Btw, the same thing happens in pcb-rnd as well when you are placing
> footprints, the only difference is that the default key binding there is
> {b r r} or {b r l} or shift+f7 for rotating the buffer.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Igor2
>
>
>
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