stop cycling desktops with scrollbutton

Juha Kautto kautto.juha at kolumbus.fi
Wed Sep 22 14:33:37 CEST 2004


Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:49:18PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I tried to prevent the fwm4 windowmanager from switching desktops while 
>>scrolling the mouse over the root window. That works and it is easy and 
>>appropriate to make it a "hidden" option, only accessible by editing 
>>xfwm4rc. I understand that a the moment no changes will go in that 
>>affect strings.
>>
>>However xfdesktop also provides the same feature, and xfdesktop appears 
>>to not read a simple configfile on startup.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
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>Actually, since xfwm4 catches those scroll events anyway, we could perhaps
>remove it from xfdesktop.
>
>No opinion about the hidden option. Personally I love the desktop-switching
>with the scrollwheel, but I can understand it may be confusing to some.
>
>	Jasper
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For what it is worth...I like the scrollwheel desktop-switch very much. 
I vote against taking it away. I would rather keep it default and make 
it possible to take it away :)





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