On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:06:45 +0100 Tony S. Sykes disseminated the following:
> This is a setting on your windows manager. Not sure which one your are using > but you should be able to find it in the settings if you wanna turn it off. > > Tony. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hoyt Bailey > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Is this action normal? > > > In attempting to trace the source of the pager randomly switching. I > found something strange. With the pager on desktop 1, using a > logitech trackman wheel with a roller ball. > 1. If I move the cursor to the right untill it goes off screen, the > pager switches from desktop 1 to desktop 2, and the cursor reappears at > the left side of the screen. > 2. If I move the cursor down until it goes off screen the pager switches > to desktop 3, and the cursor reappears at the top of the screen. > > Reverse the action of the cursor and the same thing happens. Is this > normal? Ya, like Tony said, this is actually a feature of X which some WM's use, usually described as 'viewports' moreso that 'workspaces'. It draws one huge desktop, then divides it up into 4 'quadrants' (actually, this can be configured differently as well, but that's another story), so that when you move down from viewport 1, the mouse'jumps' over into viewport 3. Sounds like either Pekwm, Kahakai or Waimea to me, but there may be others that do this. In any case, if you consult the documentation for the WM you are using, I am quite sure you will see a way to turn this behaviour off. BTW, Tony, what's up with yer quoting (or lack thereof), please tell me you are not using Lookout! -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 11:34:24 up 6 days, 16:57, 7 users, load average: 1.61, 1.42, 1.32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth." -- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry
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