Manfred Schwarb also mentions that Alt+drag is captured by at least

one well known window manager (KDE's); document that Shift+Alt+drag
is worth trying as a workaround.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@8059 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e

diff --git a/doc/using.but b/doc/using.but
index 85e2343..228500b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/using.but
+++ b/doc/using.but
@@ -55,10 +55,14 @@ PuTTY will \I{selecting lines}select a whole line or sequence of lines.
 
 If you want to select a \I{rectangular selection}rectangular region
 instead of selecting to the end of each line, you can do this by
 
 If you want to select a \I{rectangular selection}rectangular region
 instead of selecting to the end of each line, you can do this by

-holding down Alt when you make your selection. (You can also
+holding down Alt when you make your selection. You can also

 configure rectangular selection to be the default, and then holding
 configure rectangular selection to be the default, and then holding

-down Alt gives the normal behaviour instead. See
-\k{config-rectselect} for details.)
+down Alt gives the normal behaviour instead: see
+\k{config-rectselect} for details.
+
+(In some Unix environments, Alt+drag is intercepted by the window
+manager. Shift+Alt+drag should work for rectangular selection as
+well, so you could try that instead.)

 
 If you have a \i{middle mouse button}, then you can use it to
 \I{adjusting a selection}adjust an existing selection if you
 
 If you have a \i{middle mouse button}, then you can use it to
 \I{adjusting a selection}adjust an existing selection if you