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

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Folderol wrote:

> 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.

Weird, I just thought about this the other day for the first time too :). 
I would suggest creating a feature request entry in the bugzilla (or 
sending a patch of course).

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Mikael Magnusson