stop cycling desktops with scrollbutton

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Wed Sep 22 19:53:48 CEST 2004


On 09/22/04 13:55, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:49:18PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> Actually, since xfwm4 catches those scroll events anyway, we could perhaps
> remove it from xfdesktop.

not unless there's some weird X magic going on that says the root window
catches all button events.  otherwise, xfdesktops virtual root will block
the scroll event form ever getting to the real root window (and thus xfwm4
won't ever see it).

	-brian



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