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mashen

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Registered: 2012-02-28

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KDE Desktop Cube with mouse

Is there any way to activate the desktop cube with the mouse left, right or middle click or any combination of a mouse click and keyboard keys like it does in Compiz? The custom shortcut apparently only allows keyboard keys.

Oh, and while I'm at it, is there a way to make the desktop cube switch animation use the same background that you set on the "Desktop Cube" options on the desktop effect options? It only shows a black background when you switch virtual desktops with the cube animation.

toad

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Re: KDE Desktop Cube with mouse

systemsettings - workspace behaviour - screen edges

and

systemsettings - desktop effects - all effects (tab) - desktop cube, select background wallpaper

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mashen

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Registered: 2012-02-28

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Re: KDE Desktop Cube with mouse

Hey there!

systemsettings - workspace behaviour - screen edges

The most I can get with those settings are to change virtual desktop when the cursor touches the edges of the screen. What I asked was another thing... I'd like to activate the desktop cube (the one that's on System Settings -> Desktop effects -> All effects (tab) -> Desktop Cube) by using the mouse click instead (or in combination with keyboard keys, like in Compiz's Ctrl+Alt+Left Click). My question wasn't regarding the virtual desktop switching.

systemsettings - desktop effects - all effects (tab) - desktop cube, select background wallpaper

That does set a background to the desktop cube. However, it doesn't set any background when I switch virtual desktops with the Pager, or the desktop switch shortcut (Ctrl +F1, Ctrl + F2, etc), the background is black.

Mogger

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Registered: 2008-12-07

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Re: KDE Desktop Cube with mouse

Unfortunately KDE Workspaces don't support mouse bindings at the moment, but you can use something like xbindkeys + dbus or xte to get what you want. More information here: http://hanschen.org/2009/10/13/mouse-sh … xbindkeys/

No idea about the second question since I don't use that effect.

mashen

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Registered: 2012-02-28

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Re: KDE Desktop Cube with mouse

Unfortunately KDE Workspaces don't support mouse bindings at the moment, but you can use something like xbindkeys + dbus or xte to get what you want. More information here: http://hanschen.org/2009/10/13/mouse-sh … xbindkeys/

Thanks, I'll definitely check that out.