Workspace auto-switching...

[David Woyciesjes]

David Woyciesjes wrote:
> Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
> 
>> Peter Garrett writes:
>>
>>
>>> Several window managers will do desktop/workspace switching like this -
>>> Fluxbox can be configured to do it, as can Enlightenment Both KDE and
>>> Fluxbox, and I think Xfce (xfwm window manager?) can in addition be
>>> configured to switch workspace with mouse scrolling on the root window.
>>
>>
>>
>> Indeed that is the default behaviour of xfwm4 the Xfce window
>> manager. I replaced metacity with xfwm4 under Gnome to get workspace
>> switching working (among lots of other things).
>>
> 
>     Thanks. for the info... I'll drop the Xubuntu setup on the laptop, 
> and try out the xfwm4. BTW, any downsides to using xfwm4 instead of 
> metacity?
>     And I'll try the Brightside app that Alexandre mentioned also.
> 
>     Anybody have any thoughts as to which would be the better way to do 
> this? (Brightside vs. xfwm4)
> 
>     I'll let you know how it works out for me...
> 
	Cool. :) Brightside does exactly what I was thinking of! Now, to figure 
out how the heck to change from Metacity to xfwm4 (to see how edge 
flipping works there, and other differences), and how to get a different 
wallpaper for each desktop...

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