mouse wheel workspace switcher?

[fred smith]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:39:43PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 10:49 -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 August 2008 03:43:06 pm g wrote:
> > > Beartooth wrote:
> > > > Anyone recognize the feature and know where the
> > > > setting is found?
> > >
> > > 'control center > desktop > behavior > general > mouse button actions'
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > hago:
> > 
> > While it's true that in F8 with KDE 3.5.9. the mouse wheel can be used to 
> > switch desktops as Beartooth described, I haven't found a way to do that in 
> > F9 with either KDE 4 or Gnome, and Beartooth was referring to F9. It _is_ 
> > part of the XFCE desktop, and has been for some time.
> 
> In both KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.x, you can use the scroll wheel when the mouse
> is over the pager icon in the panel.

Wow. new hidden features!

It works in Gnome too. Though I concur with the later poster who asked
why, if the mouse is already over the switcher you'd need (or find it
easier) to use the scrollwheel.


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