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Skribent: Steve Litt
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Til: dng
Emne: Re: [DNG] Openbox: Alt mousewheel changes workspaces
Antoine said on Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:28:59 +0100

>On Tuesday, 27 February at 12:53, Steve Litt wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I didn't know this until today. In Openbox, pressing either Alt key
>>while rotating the mouse wheel quickly, sequentially and cyclically
>>(goes from last to first or vice versa) changes workspaces. What a
>>nice workflow enhancer for whenever my hand is already on the mouse.
>>If you have Openbox, you should try it out.
>>
>>By the way, Openbox tends to have a pretty common interface, so this
>>might work on other wm/de's. Try it and let us know.
>>
>>SteveT
>>
>>Steve Litt
>
>Fluxbox has something similar: rotating the mouse wheel over empty
>desktop space cycles through workspaces (though as with many things in
>Fluxbox and Openbox, this can be reconfigured).


Hi Antoine,

All the *boxes do that if your mouse is over the desktop. But using the
Alt is much easier than mousing to the desktop, if there's even part of
the desktop uncovered.

SteveT

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