diagonal change of work space (desktops)

[alexandros]

Hello!

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 16:48 +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > I have migrated from fvwm2 to xfce4 six months ago and I like it
> > very much.
> >
> Welcome!

Thank you! :)

> > The only thing that I miss is the following. I have 9 virtual
> > desktops in the form 3x3. When I change the desktop diagonally with
> > the mouse, then the change does not happen directly, but over
> > neighbour desktops. E.g. if I change with the mouse from 3 to 5, the
> > change happens 3 -> 2 -> 5 or 3 -> 6 -> 5.
> >
> Can you confirm the same behaviour when using keyboard shortcuts
> ctrl+f1 through ctrl+f9? See Settings > WM > Keyboard.

No. Using ctrl+function key changes desktops directly.

> > Desktop 2 or 6 respectively appear only for a fraction of a second,
> > but it is not very pleasent. Is it possible to change some variable
> > and make the change directly? I would be grateful for any idea.
> >
> I would suspect that this is a bug; I don't use so many desktops so I
> couldn't confirm. Search the bugtracker to see if it was already
> reported, else consider filing a report.

I searched bugzilla.xfce.org but didn't find anything related. Maybe
I'll report it as a bug, although I don't see it as a bug. I suppose
xfce does not know diagonal change of desktops by using the mouse and
tries to change to the respective desktop over the neighbours.

Best Regards

Alexandros