I would like to know what I have to insert into ~/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings/desktop.xml to disable the mouse wheel desktop change. Reason: I have a Notebook with a synaptics touchpad with a scroll-area on the right side. I happens sometimes when I move the mouse on the desktop, that the scrolling starts accidentially. I would like to turn desktop switching with the mouse off. There is no menu item in the Settings Manager for the Desktop Settings to turn it on or off and in the documentation are no hints how to do this in the configuration files by hand. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: on an empty desktop turn the mouse wheel. try not to switch the desktop. My current desktop.xml has this content: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE mcs-option SYSTEM "mcs-option.dtd"> <mcs-option> <option name="brightness_0_0" type="int" value="-48"/> <option name="color1_0_0" type="color" value=" 7936, 16128, 28416, 65535"/> <option name="color2_0_0" type="color" value=" 26880, 34048, 46848, 65535"/> <option name="colorstyle_0_0" type="int" value="1"/> <option name="imagepath_0_0" type="string" value="/home/lippold/ backgrounds/kerzen.jpg"/> <option name="imagestyle_0_0" type="int" value="3"/> <option name="showdm" type="int" value="1"/> <option name="showdmi" type="int" value="1"/> <option name="showimage_0_0" type="int" value="1"/> <option name="showwl" type="int" value="1"/> <option name="showwli" type="int" value="1"/> </mcs-option>
Hmm, is xfwm doing the scrolling now? Can't remember exactly...
Yeah, xfwm4 does the scrolling. Olivier, is there a hidden pref for this? I don't see it in the 4.2 docs on the website.
It "scroll_workspaces" (boolean) to set in $HOME/.config/xfce4/xfwm4/xfwm4rc I'll try to add it to the docs.
(In reply to comment #3) > It "scroll_workspaces" (boolean) to set in $HOME/.config/xfce4/xfwm4/xfwm4rc > > I'll try to add it to the docs. could you please post an example xfwm4rc? I didn't have that file and creating it with the only string scroll_workspace=false or <option="scroll_workspace" type="boolean" value="false"/> doesn't work for me
You mispelled the keyword, that's why it didn't work for you. It's "scroll_workspaces" (you forgot the trailing "s") $ cat $HOME/.config/xfce4/xfwm4 wrap_layout=false wrap_cycle=true resize_opacity=100 move_opacity=100 scroll_workspaces=false
Is there also a Setting for the minimal workspace display (pager) in the taskbar? It also scrolls workspaces on mousewheel events, I would like to disable this behaviour, too.
No there isn't. This is not the same bug, please open a new one if you want to request a feature.
BTW I don't think it's suitable either (just not everything has to be configurable). I can imagine that one may slip and use the mouse wheel on the desktop while trying to use it on a window, but I can hardly imagine that a user would move the mouse pointer over the pager and use the mouse wheel, all that accidentally...
Really? Happened to me a few times and is pretty annoying. I configured my touchpad to have the scroll function on the right side (and on the bottom, but that doesn't matter for this). When I have the mouse pointer on the center of the screen and move it to the top _right_ corner to use the panel, I often accidentially tap the wheel function of my scrollpad.
*** Bug 1242 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It happened a lot to me and I had to ask in #xfce how to disable it. I think it should be made into the preferences tools, because there seems to be many people who want to disable this.
I plan to make a "tweak wm" MCS plugin in 4.4 so that all these options can be changed with a gui, but not the same as the "regular" preference dialog (kinda "power tweak" wm) The infrastructure in xfwm4 is there, just missing time to build the gui....