[Solved] Stop desktop switching with mousewheel in JWM ?

[Member partsman]

Hello all 🙂

I been exploring around in JWM and I cant seem to figure out how to
keep virtual desktops from switching with mousewheel/touchpad scroll up/down.

I have read a few things about it from JWM and puppy sites But well I
guess I am having trouble syncing both brain cells ! LOL !

Thanks to all who reply ! 😉

Anyone can build a fast processor. The trick is to build a fast system. (Seymour Cray)

[Anonymous]

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https://github.com/joewing/jwm/issues/366 Disable mouse scroll of virtual desktops
someone asked this at github and jwm author replied how to it, and I’m not positive i fully understand. Sounds like adding a <onroot=”45″/> line into .jwmrc
antiX Control Centre → Desktop → Edit JWM Settings
will cause jwm to ignore the events generated by scrollwheel (mouse4 and mouse5) while focus is on desktop rootwindow

Set onroot=”45″ in a new, empty, root menu (you can have multiple). You can disable the scroll wheel affecting anything completely and have a root menu show up with buttons 1, 2, and 3.

[Member partsman]

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Hello all 🙂

Thanks @736b69646f6f
I did read that and gave it a try with no avail 🙁
However ! I may be doing something wrong ! Imagine that LOL !
I will continue to mess with it ! Sooner or later I will figure it out ! 😉
Hopefully someone will guide me ! But I will let you all know when/if I figure something out ! 😉

Anyone can build a fast processor. The trick is to build a fast system. (Seymour Cray)

[Moderator caprea]

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It seems that this is only possible starting with version 2.3.7, whereas debian stable is 2.3.6.
http://joewing.net/projects/jwm/release-2.3.html
scroll down, very last line
also
https://github.com/joewing/jwm/issues/452

[Member partsman]

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@caprea
Good find ! 😉
I do belive this may be the problem ! 🙂

Now I was comparing JWM in debian stable and testing !
All the depends look to be the same ! So I wonder if I installed the
Newer JWM pkg from testing if that would do the trick ?
Any thoughts ?
I don’t really see what it would hurt to give it a go ! LOL ! 🙂
I get time later I may give it a go !
Let you all know how works out ! Thanks ! 🙂

Anyone can build a fast processor. The trick is to build a fast system. (Seymour Cray)

[Moderator caprea]

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Uuh, not a good idea I think .
The depencies are not the same, if you install it from testing all the depencies will get the higher version from testing.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Here is a link to a stretch build deb I made.
jwm
Install by sudo dpkg -i *.deb

If it all works ok, I could add this version to antiX stretch repo.

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[Member partsman]

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@capre : Thank you so much for the second set of eyes !
I really appreciate you taking the time to look at this with me ! 🙂

@anticapitalista : Yup ! that did the trick ! 🙂
I downloaded your 64bit pkg installed it using “sudo dpkg -i *.deb”
And added the “<RootMenu onroot=”45″/>” Just before the end of my .jwmrc file right before the “</JWM>”
Works like a charm ! 🙂
Here is a copy of my .jwmrc file :

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<JWM>

<!-- Initialize the applications used in conjunction with JWM -->
<Include>$HOME/.jwm/startup</Include>

<!-- The root menu, if this is undefined you will not get a menu. -->
<!-- Additional RootMenu attributes: onroot, labeled, label -->
<RootMenu height="20">
   <!-- The backbone antiX menu -->
   <Include>$HOME/.jwm/menu</Include>

   <Separator/>
   <Menu label="Logout..." icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/actions/32/application-exit.png">
     <Restart label="Restart JWM" icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/actions/32/view-refresh.png"/>
     <Program label="Log Out" icon="/usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/actions/32/application-exit.png">desktop-session-exit</Program>
   </Menu>
</RootMenu>

<Include>$HOME/.jwm/keys</Include>
<Include>$HOME/.jwm/theme</Include>
<Include>$HOME/.jwm/tray</Include>
<Include>$HOME/.jwm/preferences</Include>

<RootMenu onroot="45"/>

</JWM>

Thank you so much :
@caprea and
@anticapitalista 🙂

All seems to work OK !
@ anticapitalista:
Maybe to be safe keep a backup of current JWM but your new JWM seems to work perfect ! 😉
Thanks again ! 🙂 !
Going to make the tread as solved !
Hope it helps someone in the future ! 🙂

Anyone can build a fast processor. The trick is to build a fast system. (Seymour Cray)

[Member partsman]

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I cant seem to mark as solved ?
Anyway if a moderator can mark as solved or could help me
I would Like to mark the topic as solved thanks ! 🙂

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by partsman.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by partsman.

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