[openbox] Cycle through windows with mouse wheel

Tom Wizetek tom at wizetek.com
Wed Aug 1 17:52:13 EDT 2012


hopeless monthly bump

>> I posted a while ago about the ability to cycle through windows with a
>> mouse wheel. The problem is that a final mouseclick or keypress action
>> is required to select window.
>>
>> It was suggested that the "stopInteractive" option would take care of
>> the issue but it was never clearly described or confirmed how.
>>
>> I'm currently running 3.5.0 and I'm still in the dark on how to
>> achieve this functionality. Any updates or hints?
>>
>>> ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml:
>>>
>>>   <context name="Desktop">
>>>     <mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
>>>       <action name="PreviousWindow">
>>>         <dialog>no</dialog>
>>>         <bar>yes</bar>
>>>         <raise>yes</raise>
>>>         <linear>no</linear>
>>>         <finalactions>
>>>           <action name="Focus"/>
>>>           <stopInteractive>yes</stopInteractive>
>>>         </finalactions>
>>>       </action>
>>>     </mousebind>
>>>     <mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
>>>       <action name="NextWindow">
>>>         <dialog>no</dialog>
>>>         <bar>yes</bar>
>>>         <raise>yes</raise>
>>>         <linear>no</linear>
>>>         <finalactions>
>>>           <action name="Focus"/>
>>>           <stopInteractive>true</stopInteractive>
>>>         </finalactions>
>>>       </action>
>>>     </mousebind>
>>>   </context>
>>
>> It doesn't seem to matter whether I set <stopInteractive> to "yes" or
>> "true". I've tried putting this line within <finalaction>, within
>> <action name="NextWindow">, before, after, and all combinations.


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