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marko2010

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Registered: 2010-04-17

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Scroll wheel intermittently switches workspaces in Gnome shell

Occasionally a little movement on my mouse scroll wheel will throw me into a another workspace/desktop -- completely interrupting my workflow.  I'm running the latest version of Gnome and no special software for controlling my mouse.

respiranto

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Registered: 2015-05-15

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Re: Scroll wheel intermittently switches workspaces in Gnome shell

<It's not a bug - it's a feature.>

I don't use gnome, but you should be able to disable this in it's settings (gconf-editor?).
In xfce it is configurable via xfwm4-tweaks-settings (Window Manager tweaks).

Last edited by respiranto (2015-06-11 17:00:50)

marko2010

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Registered: 2010-04-17

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Re: Scroll wheel intermittently switches workspaces in Gnome shell

<It's not a bug - it's a feature.>

It must be an undocumented one, because I can only find threads complaining it. 

After a little more poking around I discovered this is probably the fault of the Windows List extension (which is my favourite extension). If the mouse pointer happens to be hovering over the bottom of the screen and I accidentally nudge scroll wheel I get tossed into another workspace. That might explain why this behaviour appeared to be "intermittent."

I just replaced Windows List with Frippery Bottom Panel which is nearly identical in function. So far no unexpected workspace changes -- but I will report back when I am sure this problem is solved.