2010

default file is found in
/usr/autodesk/maya2010-x64/app-defaults/MayaScheme. Copy this file to
your home directory’s $HOME/app-defaults directory so that it can be edited.
Refer to the Maya 2010 Release Notes for any known limitations.
Unsupported Maya features
Some of the features in the Windows versions are not currently supported.
These include output to AVI or SGI movie formats. Please refer to the Maya
2010 Release Notes for more information.
Linux desktop configuration
To use Maya on Linux, certain default keyboard and mouse bindings must be
changed from the factory settings. These default bindings prevent commands
from being received by Maya, such as the ones that let you tumble or pan a
view in a panel.
Different Linux window managers have different key bindings and different
procedures for setting them. Linux systems are highly customizable, and many
combinations of Linux system components are possible for use with
Maya—more than can be described (or tested) by Autodesk.
The following instructions give the procedures necessary for changing the
most common configurations.
KDE and Gnome desktop configuration
For Maya to work properly with KDE and Gnome, some modifications should
be made to the mouse control. The default bindings of the Alt key and mouse
buttons do not work well with Maya. We recommend turning off the
Alt+mouse buttons. Since Maya uses the Alt+mouse buttons for scene view
tumbling, you need to ensure the bindings don’t conflict.
Different versions of KDE and Gnome may have different methods of selecting
the key bindings. See the KDE and Gnome documentation for instructions if
the following steps don’t work for your particular window manager.
KDE under Red Hat
1 Open the KDE Control Center.
2 Select Desktop and then select Window Behavior.
3 Do one of the following:
■ (Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 5.3) Open the Actions tab.
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