[openbox] Using Mouse To Change Virtual Desktops

[Andrew Gallant]

> Quickly moving the pointer to the
> screen edge to change desktops beats fumbling with keys
> or key combinations.

For you. For me, the mouse is a ball and chain.

I gave you a way of doing it with the mouse, albeit with the scroll
wheel. That does not require "fumbling with keys."

> It should not be that difficult to implement.

I'm sure Dana (Openbox dev) would be happy to accept a patch. :-)

- Andrew


On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Frank Peters <frank.peters at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:11:59 -0400
> Andrew Gallant <jamslam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > What I would like to do is just move the mouse pointer to the screen
>> > edge and, after a short delay, thereby jump to the adjacent desktop
>> > in that direction.  AFAIK, it seems that there are no openbox actions
>> > that would correspond to this.
>>
>> I don't know of any either.
>>
>
> So this task cannot be accomplished in the current openbox.
>
> That's quite unfortunate and I think that the developers should
> consider making it possible in upcoming releases.
>
> On my MS Windows machines I will always install Virtuawin
> (http://virtuawin.sf.net) which has this capability.  Also,
> a long time ago, I used to use FVWM on my Linux boxes and it
> also has this capability.  Quickly moving the pointer to the
> screen edge to change desktops beats fumbling with keys
> or key combinations.  It should not be that difficult to
> implement.
>
> Frank Peters
>
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