see, i've only noticed the Trashcan icon later on
for me using the DEL key is much faster and intuitive than having to move the mouse back and forth all the time.
thx to everyone who responded. with this new information i think i'm slowly getting somewhere.
portreekid, i can live with the sluggishness. the CPU is an older Haswell Xeon E3-1225 and 24GB RAM. Blender runs smooth though.
i think its more pronounced while connected to FG, which was the case yesterday.
but i'd like to mention one issue:
setting up the directories (Airports, Traffic etc) doesn't work quite right for me.
E.g. for 'APT File': i've compiled fg from source (using download_and_compile.sh script) so the installation is located at: /home/sfr/src/flightgear/dnc-managed/install/flightgear.
$FGDATA is located in /home/sfr/src/flightgear/dnc-managed/install/flightgear/fgdata.
i was not able to define this directory in flightgear-airport. i suspect its b/c 'flightgear' appears twice in the path.
So the workaround was to create (another) symlink 'fgfs' pointing to flightgear.
The path that finally works is: /home/sfr/src/fgfs/dnc-managed/install/flightgear/data/Airports/apt.dat.gz
The other symlink is 'data' pointing to 'fgdata' b/c flightgear-airports insists on adding 'data' all by itself. Is this is a convention on Windows?
I'd wish for a little more flexibility e.g. being able to manually define the directories.
Note that 'fgdata' probably exists only if compiled from source. The precompiled PPA package has fgdata right in /usr/share/games/flightgear.
And atm i cannot modify 'Export Directory' anymore. It's stuck to what i've set it initially and i don't know why.
I don't want to sound too negative though. Its great this tool exists. I'd just wish there was a little more documentation on its quirks and how to use it.
(Hint, hint: alpha/beta testing
)