marking the camera position

[andy5995]

I'm having trouble marking the camera position with the CTRL + F5 (-F8) keys. I first tried it with the left ctrl key, but nothing was marked. I got it to work once by using the ctrl key on the right, but then I couldn't do it again.

[andy5995]

The contents from system_info.txt:

http://pastebin.com/CrhSDiUH

My desktop environment is XFCE 4.10

[andy5995]

After some trial-and-error, I've got this to work more reliably.

First, I press and hold down F5, then press CTRL, then release both.

Second, I press and hold down CTRL, then press F5.

 

I move the camera position a little to test, and then press F5; the camera moves to the position I marked.

[andy5995]

An update... In the last game I played, I tried the sequence mentioned above, and found it wasn't working anymore. Then when using shift-click to build in batches, I had problems. My ctrl key was sticking. It didn't occur to me this was part of the problem, because I haven't noticed yet that it sticks when using it in my other apps.

Edited July 8, 2016 by andy5995

[Loki1950]

Have you had a look at the default.cfg file it details all key bindings you can change them see http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Manual_Settings for much more detail also some keyboards actually have separate key-codes for the left and right clrt keys which can be a hassle under Linux not so much with M$ Win as there keyboard input routines are very archaic from DOS days

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