Newbie config questions

[Cole Tuininga]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>> o) I'd like to switch the mouse buttons 2 and 3 (leaving 1 alone)
>
> Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing -- you want to leave
> left-click alone, and switch middle and right?  There's no GUI for this;
> you'll need to use xmodmap directly.  Try googling "xmodmap pointer
> mapping"; that might lead to something useful.

Fair enough - thanks for the pointer.

>> o) At the moment, if I have the pointer over the desktop, the scroll
>> wheel will cycle through desktops.  Can I turn that off somehow?
>
> Check out the Window Manager Tweaks settings panel, Workspaces tab.

Aha - that was exactly it.

Thanks for the info.

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