On Saturday 25 August 2018 05:46:16 Stefan Krusche wrote: Also there is a simpler way. Just right-click on the desktop pager itself, look for *pager options*, and unclick the box that reads "cycle on wheel". Bill

On Saturday 25 August 2018 10:24:21 William Morder wrote: Thank you Bill, that, here at least, was a very distracting action. Mouse wheels are about 10x too d--- fast, you never knew what workspace you were on unless you recognized what you had running on it. To pick and single out a certain workspace was difficult. So I wound up clicking on the one I wanted, and hoped the wheel, which has no clicker, didn't override me. Now I know it won't, thank you very much. Now, if mouse makers would quit making mice that one can't touch without clicking, I'd be in hog heaven. I've had to take every mouse I've bought for the last 15 years, apart and put additional springing under the left and right buttons strong enough I have to consciously click it to make it usable. And if it has side buttons, remove them because they are smack dab under the thumb thats holding the mouse to move it. What were they thinking, putting buttons where just holding the mouse to move it activates them? All the buttons a mouse needs is left/right with the scroll wheel serving as the third button IF you can press the s.o.b. to do a paste without moving the wheel and the curser before the paste is done so your paste ends up NOT where you intended. I'd pay another 10 bucks for a mouse that had a true middle button, taller than the left-right, so one could crook the finger to miss the wheel but still have the MMB effect. Make it small and put it behind the wheel, would make it very intuitive to use in about 30 seconds. And you'd never understand why we are stuck with the crappy mice we can get today. There, I've said it. And I'm not a bit sorry. You'd never willingly go back to Camels. :) -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

On Saturday 25 August 2018 08:07:34 Gene Heskett wrote: You can make your desktops a bit more manageable if you change the *Window Application Settings*. Right click at the top of the window for any application, go to *Advanced*, then *Special Application Settings*. Under *Geometry* you can choose to set a desktop for each specific application; I myself like to "fix" my application according to groups (which are related, at least in my own mind); so all browsers are fixed to desktop 4, all pdfs open in desktop 9, all office documents open in desktop 1, email in desktop 3, and so on. I use all 20 available desktops, and almost always have stuff running on every one. That way I don't have to search for a document or application, if I have stopped to do something else. And I usually have (at least) several office docs open, email is up, three or four browsers running, a whole herd of shells, a dozen examples of Konqueror with six or seven tabs each; and so on. Also, under the same settings dialog, look for *Workarounds*, and consider setting *Focus Stealing Prevention* to high or extreme for most of your applications. Then if you are working on a document, or writing an email, you will not have your window suddenly changed just because somebody sent you an email or instant message, or because your wifi connection just got wonky; instead, you can opt for a little pop-up notification (which must be set separately within those applications). I find it really annoying when I am forced to attend to some nagging application that actually can wait without any ill effects. The worst that can happen is that you get disconnected, and need to reconnect again; which is what would happen, anyway. I hate it when machines try to do my thinking for me. Bill

On Tuesday 28 August 2018 09.38:00 David C. Rankin wrote: That is *IF* you have these keys... I got a Unicomp keyboard without :) Thierry