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  • double finger slide on desktop background switches virtual desktop.

    From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, December 15, 2024 15:01:04
    Something has changed in my system. If I now do a double finger slide on
    a desktop background, it switches destop. I do not want this, and it
    never used to wrk that way. Something changed and I do not know what.
    Any help would be appreciated.


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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Monday, December 16, 2024 20:21:35
    Subject: Re: double finger slide on desktop background switches virtual
    desktop.

    On 2024-12-15 10:01, William Unruh wrote:
    Something has changed in my system. If I now do a double finger slide on
    a desktop background, it switches destop. I do not want this, and it
    never used to wrk that way. Something changed and I do not know what.
    Any help would be appreciated.

    It does it with the mouse scroll wheel, too.

    Assuming Plasma:

    1. Right click on an empty part of the desktop to get the context menu.
    2. Select "Configure Desktop and Wallpaper."
    3. Select "Mouse Actions."
    4. You should see an action for "vertical scroll" that says something
    like switch desktops."
    5. Click on the red minus sign to remove it, or click on the little
    wrench to change it to a different action.
    6. Click on "Apply."

    That should do it.

    TJ

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  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, December 18, 2024 19:18:47
    Subject: Re: double finger slide on desktop background switches virtual
    desktop.


    Thanks for the guidance. Wonder how it got changed on me? probably some accidental mouse movements.


    On 2024-12-16, TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> wrote:
    On 2024-12-15 10:01, William Unruh wrote:
    Something has changed in my system. If I now do a double finger slide on
    a desktop background, it switches destop. I do not want this, and it
    never used to wrk that way. Something changed and I do not know what.
    Any help would be appreciated.

    It does it with the mouse scroll wheel, too.

    Assuming Plasma:

    1. Right click on an empty part of the desktop to get the context menu.
    2. Select "Configure Desktop and Wallpaper."
    3. Select "Mouse Actions."
    4. You should see an action for "vertical scroll" that says something
    like switch desktops."
    5. Click on the red minus sign to remove it, or click on the little
    wrench to change it to a different action.
    6. Click on "Apply."

    That should do it.

    TJ

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Thursday, December 19, 2024 20:42:57
    Subject: Re: double finger slide on desktop background switches virtual
    desktop.

    On 19/12/24 06:18, William Unruh wrote:
    Thanks for the guidance. Wonder how it got changed on me? probably some accidental mouse movements.


    You'll probably never know. Willaim
    I irregularly would find my desktop effects disabled, still enabled in
    the setting. but non functional

    It came to pass that "kwinrc" was becoming corrupted. I haven't located
    the actual text line but I keep a backup copy in the ~/.config folder.
    The old method born of desperation was to delete most of
    ".config" let it rebuild.

    Regards


    --
    faeychild
    Running kde on 6.6.65-desktop-2.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Friday, December 20, 2024 03:28:13
    Subject: Re: double finger slide on desktop background switches virtual
    desktop.

    On 2024-12-18 14:18, William Unruh wrote:
    Thanks for the guidance. Wonder how it got changed on me? probably some accidental mouse movements.

    More likely some bugfix/security update to a Plasma component changed
    the configuration in some fashion. Mageia has a policy of not messing
    with user settings if at all possible, but the Friendly Folks at KDE
    don't seem to have the same compulsion.

    There seems to be little our developers can do about the situation.

    TJ

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