Disable alt + mouse click in Gnome?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 11:02:18PM +0900, Dave M G wrote:
> I am running Photoshop 7 under Wine in Ubuntu Feisty. A number of 
> functions are accessed by holding the alt button down while clicking the 
> mouse.
> 
> However, in Gnome (or Nautilus, or Ubuntu), holding the alt button down 
> and then clicking the left mouse button makes the mouse cursor turn to a 
> hand, and with it one can move the application window around on the 
> desktop. This function takes precedence over the application's use of 
> the alt key, so I can't access the Photoshop functions.
> 
> I looked in System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts, and I disabled all 
> the alt functions (since I never use it for navigating around the 
> desktop anyway). I did so by selecting the function and clicking 
> "Backspace", which seemed to remove it (maybe it didn't?).

It did.

> However, alt+[mouse click] still moves the application window.
> 
> How can I disable this?

Look in System -> Preferences -> Windows.  You cannot disable it, but
you can change the key to something else (Super or Meta).

Marius Gedminas
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