[openbox] Mouse-wheel desktop switching (possible feature request?)

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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:22:01 -0400
"Filip Wojciechowski" <fwojciec at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is a tiny problem I have when using my laptop.  I have it set up
> so that sliding a finger along the horizontal (right) edge of the
> touchpad imitates the mouse-wheel and enables scrolling.  However,
> this kind of scrolling cannot be used to switch desktops comfortably,
> because the touchpad is too sensitive (a movement of 1mm is enough to
> switch the desktop, but in practice it is easier to rotate through all
> the desktops three times over than to switch to the next one).
> 
> Beryl, when I last used it a while back, had a configuration option
> that enabled the user to set the number of mouse-wheel rotations
> necessary to switch the desktop, so I could set it to 10 or so, which
> made desktop switching with the touchpad work very nicely on my
> laptop.  Is there any way to achieve a similar effect with Openbox?
> Or could something like this be added as a feature (so that this could
> could be configured from rc.xml)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Filip Wojciechowski

This had been a very minor problem for me with an over-sensitive mouse
(I use a different one now) so I agree that something in the rc file for
sensitivity would be very helpful.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk