Disabling Alt+ mouse click shortcut for windowing

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 12:36:14 CET 2009


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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:29 AM, umang gupta <umang.ece at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> Actually while customizing xfce-desktop , I have disabled  title bar for my
> firefox  , evolution apps so I was using Alt + middle/double click shortcuts
> for window maxmize/ background purpose while focus being anywhere  in app
> window . As I couldn't use single click on title bar any more .
>
> Now with no-title-bar , I really  don't  want to give user a ability to
> maximize those windows .So I don't need Alt+middle/double click shortcut .
> Atm , for windows  having title bar , I can use single  click/double click
> shortcuts .
>
> I saw Xfwm/EasyClick key in settings.c file of xfwm4 code . I disabled that
> key but still it doesn't turn out for me .

You can set double-click action to "Nothing" and easyclick to false
and that should do what you want, But xfce 4.2 is a bit old, so you
may have to patch the code, nothing really complicated though, it's
all in src/events.c

HTH
Cheers,
Olivier.



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