AVL-MXE - change essential window settings

[Indanautilus]

Hello,

I have a problem with AV Linux I did not figured out by myself.

Alt+Mousewheel is set to "Switch Workspaces" on default.
Mousewheel+Shift/Ctrl/Alt are essential for the navigation/zoom in the arrangement view of nearly ANY DAW.


The XFWM4 "window manager tweaks" are not implemented because they have been replaced with the openbox settings. In AVL-MXE 21 there is a GUI for these settings. When you set the workspaces to 1 Alt+Mousewheel will not cycle through them but the key command is still blocked for (example) REAPER.

Can anyone help me?

[GMaq]

Hi,

I missed this post, if it's not too late..

Try using the Openbox configuration manager and setting the number of Desktops to 1 instead of 4 and let me know if that works..

[bluzee]

Look at ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml

Make a copy of this file for a backup in case you mess up then open it in a text editor and search for GoToDesktop. You'll find a bunch of mousebind entries where it is bound to up/down (scroll wheel), alt+up/down, Ctrl + Alt + up/downl etc. etc. Delete the mousebind tags that are causing you trouble, save the file and log out and back in.

Hopefully that helps. I had to delete the up/down ones as my touchpad edge scroll was constantly accidentally flipping the workspace.

[Indanautilus]

It worked!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

I deleted the following lines:

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 <mousebind button="A-Up" action="Click">
        <action name="GoToDesktop">
          <to>previous</to>
        </action>
      </mousebind>
      <mousebind button="A-Down" action="Click">
        <action name="GoToDesktop">
          <to>next</to>
        </action>
      </mousebind>

Greetings

[GMaq]

Thanks @bluzee and @Indanautilus

Will add this to the AVL-MXE User Manual!

[Indanautilus]

To solve this issue completely I needed to change the "Alt+Mouse" settings globally.
First I searched the openbox rc.xml for an equivalent parameter of this...

"Key used to grab and move windows"


...and found these lines:

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<mouse>
<context name="Frame">
<mousebind button="A-Left" action="Drag">
        <action name="Move"/>
      </mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Right" action="Drag">
        <action name="Resize"/>
      </mousebind>

The changes I made in this section had no effect. So I replaced openbox with xfwm4. It also unlocked the access to the other key commands that were not tweakable within openbox or the MX preferences. Anyway besides such minor tweaks AV Linux works pretty much out-of-the-box.