How to Turn Off Changing Desktops When Scrolling Touchpad in Lubuntu12.04 ?

Wed Oct 24 04:45:37 UTC 2012

Lee:

I encounter this on Lubuntu 12.10, and also (as I recall) on Lubuntu
12.04.  

What happens (accidentally), is that originally you have the mouse
positioned over the scroll-bar of a window, or perhaps over the text.  

You scroll with the mouse-wheel, and the text scrolls up (or down).  The
world is good.  

But then (unknowingly), you move the mouse so that the mouse pointer is
no longer over the window you are using (or its scroll bar), but is now
over the desktop.  

You move the mouse-wheel to scroll some more, but now, where the pointer
is over the desktop, all your windows suddenly disappear (including the
text you were laboriously editing), and you let out a shriek of
despair!  

If you don't go into cardiac-arrest, and somehow realize that you
scrolled to another desktop, you let out a sigh of relief, and go back
to the original desktop, and the world is good once again.  

As you can see, this can be a somewhat disturbing experience.  I can see
why it might be a good idea to disable this behavior.  

- Aere

On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 21:00 -0700, Lee Gold wrote:
> Are you sure this is in 12.04? I don't have this in lubuntu-rc.xml.
> Again 12.04 is different.
>   
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012, at 03:58 PM, Jose Lopez wrote:
> > My Touchpad Changes Desktop, How Do I stop it?
> > 
> > The scroll button on your mouse keeps changing the Desktop Workspace even
> > when you're scrolling through a folder or file.
> > 
> > cd ~/.config/openboxcp lubuntu-rc.xml lubuntu-rc.xml.bak
> > 
> > (this makes a backup file so that when you think you've messed it up you
> > could revert it back.)
> > 
> > leafpad lubuntu-rc.xml
> > 
> > and delete the lines which says;
> > 
> > <mousebind button="UP" action="click"> <action name="DesktopPrevious"
> > /><mousebind button="Down" action="click"> <action name="DesktopNext"
> > />
> > 
> > Log out and Log in back again to see the changes!
> > 
> > if you've messed it up and want to revert it back;
> > 
> > cp lubuntu-rc.xml.bak lubuntu-rc.xml
> > 
> > That should do it.
> > Jose lopez
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:03 PM, paul sutton <zleap at zleap.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 17/10/12 22:00, Lee Gold wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > This is not what I'm looking for can anyone help?
> > > >
> > > > When I scroll along the right side of my laptop touchpad focused in an
> > > > open desktop the desktops change from 1 to 2 and visa-vera. When I'm in
> > > > the middle of doing something and this accidentally happens I begin to
> > > > pull my hair out - I really hate this action.
> > > >
> > > > I am looking for a way to shut this off and only have desktop changing
> > > > via the panel or by selection in a window's top border w/right click.
> > > > But *not* by the scrolling in the touchpad.
> > > >
> > > > There unfortunately is no GUI to adjust this in Lubuntu but there is a
> > > > config file where I can edit text and probably comment out the lines.
> > > >
> > > > Please tell me were in the file? How? The text file syntax has changed
> > > > slightly since I last did this. I thought someone would know. But I can
> > > > backup the file and experiement until it's turned off i guess...
> > > >
> > > > This option is really nasty on a laptop and IMHO it should be an optio
> > > > of a Lubuntu GUI.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012, at 03:00 PM, Jose Lopez wrote:
> > > >> Hi all, just wanted to give you a little help on this subject. you can
> > > do
> > > >> this in a graphical formatt, and here is how.
> > > >> 1. Right click on a open space of desktop, that should bring the Lubuntu
> > > >> desktop menu,
> > > >> 2. click on desktop preferences.
> > > >> 3. click on the advance tab.
> > > >> 4. check box that says something like "show menus provided bu window
> > > >> managers.
> > > >> 5. click on close.
> > > >> 6. Right click on a open space of desktop again, and that will bring you
> > > >> to
> > > >> the open box desktop menu.
> > > >> 7.click on system.
> > > >> 8.click on open box conf. manager.
> > > >> 9. click on the destop tab on the side.
> > > >> 10. change the # of desktop to one.
> > > >> 11. close.
> > > >> your done. I hope this helps
> > > >>
> > > >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Lee Gold <leegold at operamail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> Hi,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Using 12.04 with laptop. Moving the finger along the right edge of the
> > > >>> touchpad acts as a scroll wheel. If the cursor is not in any app window
> > > >>> but is in open desktop area then this scrolling action will transport
> > > >>> one to a different desktop.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I want to turn off all desktop changing with the touchpad. I only want
> > > >>> the right click at the top of the window border which gives me the
> > > >>> option to take that window to a different desktop - I want no other
> > > >>> desktop changing action enabled with the mouse/touchpad.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I used to go into /home/userone/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml and make
> > > >>> changes. But this file and the syntax in there has changed slightly
> > > >>> since 10.x and now I'm not sure how to do it.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> How to do? Thanks!
> > > >>>
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> > >     Thanks,  that should be useful here too,   I wonder if its possible
> > > for the installer to detect if tere is a touch pad and set this as
> > > default behaviour or even have 1 desktop as the default,
> > >
> > > Paul
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Sincerely,
Aere

Sincerely,
Aere