[openbox] Using Mouse To Change Virtual Desktops

[Brian Mattern]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> On 30/06/2012, Brian Mattern <rephorm at rephorm.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Frank Peters wrote:
> >
> >> It should not be that difficult to implement.
> >
> > A similar feature is already implemented when moving a window to the
> > edge of the screen.  You could probably modify moveresize_event() in
> > moveresize.c, and add some code before "if (!moveresize_in_progress)
> > return FALSE;" to call do_edge_warp() and then modify the edge warp code
> > to also work if there is no window currently being moved.
> >
> > This shouldn't be that hard for you to implement now that you know where
> > to start.
> 
> That won't work, openbox only gets motion events while dragging a
> window, because otherwise we don't care. What you want is to have
> invisible windows mapped along each edge and listen to enter/leave
> events on those. I have this partially implemented in my git repo in
> the edges branch.

Thanks for the correction!

Brian