Thursday, October 13, 2011

Alt Key doesn't work in Gedit on Mac OS X Lion

I just installed Gedit on my Mac because it's my favorite text editor. After a while (to be exact as I wanted to comment out a line of python code) I noticed that the alt key doesn't work. I started a google search where I found a lot of websites recommending to change X11 settings or copy the Xmodmap around and other things. I tried everything but it didn't help. I still couldn't comment out that line. Another trial of google search brought me to the solution.
Right click in the edit area -> Input Methods -> Multipress
And finally I could comment out that line of code. Thanks to old Nabble.

2 comments:

  1. My CMD+S doesn't work after choosing Multipress. Is there a fix for that too?

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  2. I didn't find a solution for that. Looks like you have to choose which key combo you need more.... or use something else than gedit. Probably it's worth filling a bug report.

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