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Old 09-20-2004, 09:16 AM   #1
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KDE: turn off mouse-initiated desktop switching


From a KDE newbie:

I know how to turn the "mouse wheel switches desktop" on and off, but how do you turn off the behavior whereby moving the mouse off the right edge of the screen sends you to the next desktop?

Thanks for any help.

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Old 09-20-2004, 09:32 AM   #2
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I am not aware that you can do this in KDE (if anyone knows differently, I'd like to know).

Some window managers (including Gnome (Sawfish?) and Afterstep) let you do this but I think KDE handles desktops differently.

If it is a missing feature, why not code it in?
 
Old 09-20-2004, 10:44 AM   #3
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The feature is there, and it's driving me crazy. I'd like to turn it off.
 
Old 09-20-2004, 11:02 AM   #4
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control center->desktop->window behavior unselect "desktop navigation wraps around"
 
Old 09-20-2004, 01:37 PM   #5
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From the Control Centre, go to Desktop, then Window Behaviour. Click on the Advanced tab, and go to Window Behaviour.

The setting that controls this is “active desktop borders”. It's fairly self-explanitory from there.

Thanks for giving me the chance to find that!
 
Old 09-20-2004, 01:39 PM   #6
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Thank you all! I figured it was right there under my nose. Now I can tuck my mouse out of the way without losing the workspace.

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Old 10-25-2004, 12:52 PM   #7
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kde

New user Fedora core 2 using only gnome desktop from basic install I've finally got the os stable enough to keep and want to add Kde I installed the rpm but cant figure out how to add or switch to it
also bittorent is installed but can't find it to associate or use the mozilla plugin.

Thankfull for any insight.
 
  


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