I have the problem on desktop too. The slightest accidental touch of the
mouswheel while moving across the taskbar sends me zipping through
windows. I could slow down the scroll speed, but then scrolling through
a document would be slower than desired. I basically dont want my mouse
wheel to do
This behaviour is truly awful on a laptop using trackpad scrolling.
If I am scrolling a window down fast to the bottom, once I reach the end
of the document the mouse cursor ends up over the task bar and before I
know it I'm cycling through windows.
I've searched for settings and there don't
Please don't let this ticket die. It amounts to one new setting and one
new line (of pseudo-code):
onScroll() {
if (someSetting) return; // new line
doNormalScrollThing();
}
and would remove some *really* annoying behavior.
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I still have this bug on Xenial, Gnome Flashback Metacity. Is there an
option to disable this yet? I can't find it.
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David Jurenka's patch works (Many Thanks!), but only for the window list, not
the workspace switcher - which is actually where I get the most problems: I've
used Windows for years, so I generally use Alt-Tab to switch windows, but I
still use the mouse to switch workspaces.
As suggested by
David Jurenka's patch at comment #87 worked flawlessly for me (on
Maverick): no more scrolling through windows in windows list on panel.
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I agree with psarhjinian. This pretty clearly meets the criteria for a
papercut.
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I disagree that this isn't a papercut, unless the last point (In a
default application of a release under development) is the case. To
whit:
:A bug, or an unintended problem occurring within an existing piece of
software, **Absolutely. This behaviour sees users, and especially users with
- Marking Invalid as per Sebastien's comment.
For further information about papercuts criteria, please read
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut.
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PLEASE give us a way to disable the scroll wheel from switching windows
on the panel
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On a laptop track pad, it's really easy to accidentially use the
scrolling goes through windows feature of the new g-p. I believe this
would warrent disabling the functionality (maybe only if a trackpad is
detected? is this doable?) or at least offering an option
This drives me crazy. My wonderful VX Nano mouse which I love in
Windows is totally annoying in Ubuntu 10.04 because of this.
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The bug not duplicate on launchpad, is that really an hundredpapercut
bug? In any case the change needs to be updated to the current codebase
if that should still be an option or simplified to change the behaviour
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I just found a good alternative to window list this morning called
Dockbarx. It gives you much more control over the way the window list
functions, including the ability to disable the window scroll without
having to disable scrolling system wide.
True. After all those years this bug still isn't fixed. Ubuntu 10.04 is
an LTS release and this bug really needs to be finally fixed.
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This really should be fixed for Lucid. It drives novice users nuts:
they issue a scroll command and their windows go thoroughly berzerk.
It's up there with Microsoft Windows' tendency to think the
Super/Windows key is stuck down or Mac OS X's tendency to ignore window
button clicks: simple, but
This still is an issue in the latest build of Ubuntu 10.04.
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This 'bug' bothers me as well, as a user of a mouse with a rather
sensitive scroll wheel.
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glade is not used since karmic and the patch need to be updated,
unsubscribing sponsors there for now
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Well, the upstream discussion is quite stale. In the meantime, I've
created a PPA with a very straightforward patch. No configuration
options are added, just the function for scrolling on task list is
completely disabled. No more, no less.
https://launchpad.net/~libwnck-noscroll/+archive/ppa
Log
That is great, David! You are awesome :-)
I would be infinitely grateful if you could create a package for hardy
as well... Have you placed the patch online somewhere? Could you
provide a link to it?
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No problem, Øyvind. The source package for Hardy has just been uploaded and now
it's waiting in the build queue.
The patch (version for Hardy) can be found at http://pastie.org/729263 .
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Thanks a lot for also making the hardy package! What a cute little
patch... :-)
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But about every touchpad is a Synaptics touchpad and for the great mass
of laptop users this will solve the problem. Tough it is true that if
the user chooses to use edge-scroll or has some custom hardware this bug
will still persist.
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How do you tell users the way of scrolling has been changed? Users have
been scrolling using the edges of the touchpad for years. You can't just
change this to two-fingers scroll. If the edges don't work in a new
release of Ubuntu, they'll think the developers screwed up the touchpad
drivers and
Maybe, it would be ok to tell the user about this feature when the
synaptic touchpad is detected. With a popup message and a small
explanation about this bug.
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Switching the default scroll mode to two finger scroll is a workaround,
not a final solution. Solving this by defaulting to two finger scroll
would be forcing everyone who is affected by this bug to use their
laptops in a certain way. I thought Ubuntu was the free OS. =) I would
still use edge
JSuvanto wrote 2 hours ago:
I would still use edge scrolling even if two finger scroll was an option.
Also, I'm not a coder, but it sounds a lot less work to write code for
disabling an old feature than to implement a completely new feature.
Two finger scrolling is already available in Ubuntu
Sorry for the double post, but I want to add I agree with you about two
finger scroll not being a solution, but just a workaround. Disabling
scrolling through windows isn't much work. Marcus Carlson already made a
patch which makes it possible to enable or disable this feature, but it
hasn't been
This bug could be solved by fixing Bug #487749 for laptops. This bug is
about replacing the current one-finger-on-the-edge scroll with the
double-finger-scroll on Synaptic touchpads.
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Switching the default scrolling method to two fingers only solves this
bug if users stick with the default. I have some fine motor control
problems, and I find scrolling using two fingers more difficult than
with one along the edge.
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It's also driving me nuts (Ubuntu 9.10, compiz uninstalled). With a
Logitech MX revolution mouse the scroll wheel can spin freely for
several seconds, or needs just a small movement to trigger it
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Everything works like a charm on Jaunty.
Thank you Marcus!
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There's a way to disable this feature :)
apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
System Preferences CompizConfig Settings Manager Viewport Switcher
Desktop-based Viewport switching Disable Move Next and Move Prev.
IT.DOESN'T. WORK.
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just for the record, this papercut was not resolved in ubuntu 9.10
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you can disable sitch to next (virtual) desktop in compiz...but not disable
the switch to next window in the tasks list (this is not limited to
compiz, it works the same in metacity)
2009/9/29 JjBehrens jji...@gmail.com
There's a way to disable this feature :)
apt-get install
Would it be possible to get this patch as a PPA? I'm new to Ubuntu and I
don't feel comfortable compiling this thing myself.
Coming from a Windows background, I find this thing to be more of a bug
than a feature. I can understand uniforming things everywhere in the
OS/WM, but it's still annoying
There's a way to disable this feature :)
apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
System Preferences CompizConfig Settings Manager Viewport Switcher
Desktop-based Viewport switching Disable Move Next and Move Prev.
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This feature is driving me nuts ;) I can't emphasize that enough.
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vuntz will probably be fine to still review some gnome-panel changes
when he has free slots, is the change there very useful and worth having
a distro change?
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I've been pinging vuntz for the last couple of weeks about this and
other gnome-panel bugs ([1], or compiz problems with workspace switcher)
but it seems he never got the time to look them through and commit them
which is very sad. Now we're past hard code freeze and gnome-shell is
getting all
I haven't read the whole thread, but this is not a bug. I understand
what has been mentioned and it can be annoying in some regard, but I
love the scroll between windows/tabs with the scroll button.
I don't use much on task bar, but I think that feature is a part of GTK
that is used in Gnome...
I really would like to try Marcus' patches, so you'll excuse me for this noob
question : how am I supposed to apply scroll_gui.patch (ubuntu 9.04)?
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oliwek, try this (haven't tried it myself so you might have to improvise
a bit ;-) )
First we need to build libwnck and install libwnck
# cd
# mkdir temp
# cd temp
# apt-get build-dep libwnck
# apt-get source libwnck
# cd libwnck-2.26.0
# cp /path/to/10_wnck_scroll_enabled.patch debian/patches/
oliwek, I forgot to say that if you do sudo apt-get update sudo apt-
get upgrade your special package will be removed and the ubuntu package
will be installed instead - could be good to know if things don't work
out as they should :)
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komputes, you mean like how I've implemented this in the patch? See how
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Yes Marcus, that looks great. I think it should be there but off by
default.
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Upstream said it should be on by default but that doesn't mean Ubuntu
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thanks for the fast reply, Marcus
for the following step :
# cp /path/to/scroll_gui.patch debian/patches/30_scroll_gui.patch (from
http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=138627)
edit debian/patches/series (eg with nano) and add a line with
30_scroll_gui.patch after
I forgot to mention : for the :
1/ sudo cp /home/oliwek/scroll_gui.patch debian/patches/30_scroll_gui.patch
the scroll_gui.patch was downloaded from your post #43
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oliwek, sorry, my mistake. This
# apt-get source gnome-panel
# cd libwnck-2.26.0
# cp /path/to/scroll_gui.patch debian/patches/30_scroll_gui.patch (from
http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=138627)
Should be
# apt-get source gnome-panel
# cd gnome-panel-2.26.0 -- CORRECT
#
thank you Marcus, scrolling is now disabled in the window list :)
I just had to install fakeroot before everything else.
note there's already an update proposed for libwnck22, I don't know if this
would already disable your patch...
let's hope some method to disable this scrolling in the windows
by the way, when the mouse cursor is on the desktop, scrolling doesn't
switch to other (virtual) desktops anymore (when the cursor is on the
bottom right of the screen, above the bottom dashboard on the workspace
switcher, scrolling still switches desktops though) ; this is an ideal
configuration
oliwek, not really sure what you mean but desktop (disabling) scrolling
and (enabling / disabling) workspace switcher scrolling is two other
bugs.
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I don't know why, but after having applied your patch, if I use the
scroll wheel with the mouse cursor located on an empty space on the
desktop, this no longer switches from desktop 1 to desktop 2 (as was the
case before) ; I can't see what I could have done myself to disable this
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I can confirm this bug. When the cursor is too close to the gnome-panel
Window List applet, and i use the scroll wheel, it scrolls through all
windows. I also think this feature should be off by default but that,
but have an enable/disable setting on the Window List Preferences
(preferences
We've implemented this in GNOME Do/Docky as well, but to deal with
laptop touch pads that can be overly sensitive we've done some smoothing
so that you can't make it freak out. Maybe we should do the same for
gnome panel?
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I'll try to get this accepted upstream first, but in case I won't - I'll
get back and we'll continue discussing the issue here instead. I also
think that when we're adding an option to the window list to enable
mouse wheel scrolling, we should do the same for the workspace switcher,
but that's for
This looks great. This really is a great improvement.
I agree with dfalk. Enable scrolling isn't clear enough. How about
Flip through windows using mouse wheel?
I also agree this is a bad default and it should be disabled by default.
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I like the screenshot. It's (almost) perfect. I think the verbiage is
slightly misleading. Instead of saying enable scrolling, something
like Enable scroll wheel or Allow mouse scroll wheel to cycle
windows is more descriptive. Otherwise it makes it sound like the list
is being scrolled
Hello all,
I’m totally new here. A friend linked me to this page as he knows I am a
fervent defender of this windows scrolling feature. I read all the
thread and it seems it will be disabled by default. My request is that,
if you disable it, please let users reenable it and please, through
Screenshot showing the scrolling option (and gconf setting). As said,
suggestions are welcome.
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Due to popular demand, here's a patch that adds a gui for changing the
scrolling behavior.
Comment on design and naming is welcome. Screenshot in a second.
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Comment on design and naming is welcome.
2 Marcus Carlson -- simply perfect =)
Regardless of how annoying this feature is I agree with Eoshyn, it is
good idea to *not* change default behavior (leave scrolling enabled),
because such unexpected changes are much worser. Just an option as
After a quick look I would propose not add the gconf dependency to
libwnck but instead add a property, scroll_enabled, to the tasklist and
use gconf within window-list.
What do you think?
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This patch adds the ability to set the scrolling behavior of the
tasklist in libwnck.
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This patch against gnome-panel adds the ability to change the scroll behavior
via gconf settings.
Please comment on code (mostly c'n'p) and if this is the correct way to handle
this issue.
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xtknight, I wrote a similar patch to disable scrolling in the workspace
switcher, maybe we should use the same gconf key name?
Se bug #150443 for the patch.
I don't think it's necessary to add a GUI option to enable the
scrolling, this just clutter the gui, better let it rest in gconf for
the
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