[openbox] openbox/rox scrollwheel desktop skipping

Dana Jansens danakj at orodu.net
Sun Aug 5 11:25:14 EDT 2007


On 8/5/07, Kacper Wysocki <kacperw at online.no> wrote:
> On 8/5/07, Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft at comhem.se> wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Kacper Wysocki wrote:
> > >> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:43:44 -0400
> > >> "Jose Silva" <jfonsos at cantv.net> wrote:
> > > [..]
> > >>> using the mouse wheel, it changes between desktop 0 and desktop 2, I mean,
> > >>> skipping one desktop all the time.
> > >>> is is possible to change that?
> > > [..]
> > > This no longer works (ob 3.4.4), ie mouse scrolling skips a desktop
> > > regardless of whether the action is "Click" or "Press".  Why is this
> > > even happening? Is there some kind of interaction between rox and
> > > openbox button grabs? Checking xev I get exactly one ButtonPress and
> > > one ButtonRelease event when I pull the scroll wheel up or down.
> > > So, rox+openbox, the following under the Desktop context:
> > >      <mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
> > >        <action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
> > >      </mousebind>
> > >      <mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
> > >        <action name="DesktopNext"/>
> > >      </mousebind>
> > > scrollwheel up one shifts desktop 1 to destkop 3.
> >
> > Try the Root context instead, though I'm not sure if it will help.
>
> <context name="Root">
>       <mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
>         <action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
>         <wrap>yes</wrap>
>       </mousebind>
>       <mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
>         <action name="DesktopNext"/>
>         <wrap>yes</wrap>
>       </mousebind>
> </context>
>
> Does nothing. I suppose the Rox pinboard has overlayed the root window anyway.

Or try turn off their "blackbox hack" option, I forget its name.  I
think that has caused people this problem.



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