Ubuntu Alt key functionality

[Ziecore]

I've spent more time modding KSP and trying to get it to work stable than I have spent playing it.

Usually don't have a problem with that since I love modding, finding new mods and just generally tweaking things (skyrim ruined my life).

But now I want to play it .

I want to play career and I want to do so without having to worry about it crashing every time I revert or go back to space port.

So I decided to try out Ubuntu to run KSP 64-bit stable and I love it.

I have about 80-100 mods installed and everything seems to be running smoothly with 8k textures and loads of parts.

The point:

First time on Linux/Ubuntu so expected to encounter a few problems, most of which I have solved.

The one that bugs me the most right now is the Alt key functionality in Ubuntu. It does not act the same way it would do on Windows.

Mainly my problem is not being able to copy parts whilst building using the Alt key and the mod Scatterer, which requires me to open a menu with Alt+F9-10 in order to disable anisotropic filtering so it wont render strange lines on the sky.

Ubuntu has other plans and it wants to open a drop down menu with Alt+F10 and to do nothing at all with Alt+F9.

After some research I found out that 'Right Shift' should have the same functionality has the Windows Alt key in Ubuntu.

It seems to be working for everything BUT opening the Scatterer menu for reasons unknown to me.

It also disrupts the work flow having to reach for the 'Right Shift' key every time I need to copy something.

Things that I have tried:

I have an AMD GPU so I am running Catalyst Control Centre which I thought I could use to disable anisotropic filtering but it seems the Ubuntu version only allows me to change the levels of it not disable it completely.

So back to the Alt key, I have tried changing the keyboard shortcuts of Ubuntu and disabling all the Alt key ones. Did not seem to work.

There is something in Ubuntu called mnemonics which I do not fully understand, but it seems to be related, I have tried disabling it and it did not seem to work either.

Now I am out of ideas so please help if you can : ).

[cantab]

The modifier key isn't Alt on Linux for reasons like what you've found. In particular Alt-click on most Linux distributions lets you move the window, therefore conflicting with Alt-clicking stuff in KSP.

You can change the modifier key by editing your settings.cfg. If you want a key that's better placed perhaps the Windows key if Ubuntu isn't using it.

As for Scatterer, it sounds like it might either use its own settings or be hard-coded to use Alt instead of following KSP's settings. Ask in the scatterer thread I think.