Mouse wheel workspace switching behavior

[Mirko K.]

On 19.09.2012 19:27, Duncan wrote:
> Mirko K. posted on Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:39:21 +0200 as excerpted:
>
>> I'm using KDE 4.8.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 with a 3x2 virtual desktop. The
>> mouse wheel is bound to switch to the next/previous Desktop, and it goes
>> through all desktops.
>>
>> I'd like a different behavior: Wheel without modifier should switch one
>> desktop to the left/right, and wheel plus some modifier (Alt or Super)
>> should switch one desktop up/down.
>>
>> Any idea how to do that?
>
> You don't mention whether you already know about the mouse actions
> settings, which let you assign various mouse events (modified or not) to

Thanks for your reply, and sorry for not mentioning where all I had 
looked, which is pretty much everywhere. System Settings up and 
down, Hotkeys and Gestures, Mouse, Desktop behaviour, etc. The 
settings of the Folderview and other Activities. Grepped the KDE 
config files in $HOME and /usr/share, etc. But nothing. :-)

The mouse actions don't work, as the only related option is the 
standard "Switch Desktop" (Arbeitsfläche wechseln, in my German system).

The cube doesn't help either, as there also no option to make the 
mouse wheel to only switch horizontal.

I think there's really no way yet, which actually isn't that much of 
a problem. I've just recently started to use the 3x2 layout after 
years with a 4x1 layout. Perhaps I try to get used to the Activities 
which could give me a somewhat similar workflow as I intend here.

Anyway, if anybody knows a solution, I'm all ears.

Thanks!

> various actions.  Click on the desktop cashew/toolbox, and select desktop
> (or folderview or whatever type of activity you have configured)
> settings.  Often, you can also get to it with a context/right-click on
> the desktop and select desktop/whatever settings from there, too, but
> that action can be configured for something else, so clicking the cashew
> is the "canonical" method.
>
> Once in that dialog, select mouse actions, and you can map a whole list
> of different actions to different mouse-event triggers.
>
> While you can't /quite/ get the left/right up/down as described (without
> doing your own code patches), you CAN change the way it works to SOME
> extent.  Note that I'm on kde 4.9.1 now and ran the 4.9 pre-releases as
> well, so it's been awhile since I ran 4.8 and don't remember whether this
> particular feature was available there, or not.  So I'm not sure you'll
> have this yet, but it /is/ in 4.9 if you don't.
>
> kde settings (system settings, except they're more kde than system, since
> most only for kde, and only for that user, the kde3 name kcontrol was
> thus much more accurate, AND less generic so easier to google!),
> Workspace appearance and behavior, workspace behavior, virtual desktops.
>
> There should be two tabs, desktops, and switching.  On the switching tab,
> if the animation is set to desktop cube animation, the configuration
> button (with the wrench/spanner) should be enabled (it's disabled for
> most of the other animations).  If you click it, a dialog with several
> checkboxes should appear, including "use pager layout for animation".  If
> this is checked, then it should honor your pager layout.
>
> Back on the main switching tab, there's a checkbox to enable navigation
> wrap-around between the first and last desktop, or not.
>
> Pager layout, meanwhile, is found on the desktops tab.  Here, I've
> configured four desktops and four rows, so a single column, and indeed, I
> get vertical flips for all changes (no horizontal turns).  I experimented
> with reversing it, 1 row so four columns, as well, and that as expected
> gives me all horizontal turns, no flips.
>
> But as I said, I don't believe it's possible to configure modified-scroll
> for one of vertical/horizontal and unmodified scroll for the other...
> without doing your own patch.  At least not yet.  Maybe in 4.10 or so
> (tho development focus will probably switch to kde-frameworks aka kde5 at
> some point pretty soon).
>



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