On 2024-02-27 22:13:24, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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.

I switch all the window manager keystrokes to use the "Windows" key, coz
it's otherwise mostly not used for anything else, and makes sense to use
"Windows" key for window manager functions. Also chances are something
else might want whatever random Alt combination your window manager wants
to use.

So on my super desktop that I'm using now, "Windows" left arrow / right
arrow / mouse wheel will swap workspaces. "Windows" 1 will swap to the
first one, similar with 2, 3, ... I set it up that way on the last
window manager I used, Openbox, and on the one I use now, Awesome.

--
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.