Hey folks,
recently I’m annotating a lot of screenshots, and in this task I found that it would be very desirable to have a means of limiting the mouse pointer to move only on the X or Y axis, not both at the same time. This would be really helpful when using Spectacle’s text marker feature for instance to mark stuff in just one straight line, instead of going all over the place.
Something like “Ctrl-Alt-Shift-X” to make it move horizontally only, and “Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Y” to move vertically, with the other axis being fixed while the key combination remains pushed.
Is there some tool that might help achieve this? The built-in Gnome keyboard shortcuts are not supporting it.
Thanks a ton!
Cheers,
Joe
In general, on my system, when highlighting text with the mouse the keyboard also works. As long as you use the mouse to highlight as little as one character then the arrow keys serve to move the highlight vertical and horizontal. It does the same in the files app to mark the different file names for use.
I have not tried it with a purely graphical image, though it also works when moving the selection box the same way for doing screen shots.
Dear Jeff,
thanks for your reply but sorry, that missed my point a bit. I’m not marking text but rather bitmaps. They may contain text, but no software I know is smart enough to recognize that in a screenshot image. Some paint tools can temporarily lock the mouse to one dimension (however, not even Gimp can do that) but it’s not available as a Gnome desktop feature, and I thought it would make a lot of sense if it were available for general use.
Cheers,
Joe