HowTo: Disable Mouse Scroll to Switch Desktop – OpenBox

Alex — Sun, 15 May 2011 19:39:46 +0000

Open up the openbox config file, it should be located in /home/username/.config/openbox/ but if it’s not you might have to do a little digging.

nano /~.config/openbox/rc.xml

Find the following lines and remove or comment them out, you can use Ctrl+W in nano to find:

action="Click" button="Up">
name="DesktopPrevious"/>
>
action="Click" button="Down">
name="DesktopNext"/>
>

Note: XML comments are as follow:<-- Comment -->

Save with Ctrl+X, Y, Enter (if you’re using nano) and restart OpenBox (Preferences -> OpenBox Config -> Restart) and all should be done.

HowTo: Switch the Window Menu Buttons Back to the Right – Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 / 11.04

Alex — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:10:05 +0000

I’m not an OSX person and personally prefer my minimise, maximise and close buttons to be in that order on the right, which they are not as default on the new Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) so here’s how you can swap them back to their rightful place (pun intended).

This can be done either of two ways:
Use the following one line command to edit gconf (for more info type man gconftool):

gconftool -s /apps/met>gconftool -s /apps/met>gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout -t string menu:minimize,maximize,close

OR
Using gconf-editor (the GUI version):

In terminal type: gconf-editor
Navigate to /apps/metacity/general
Change button_layout to: menu:minimize,maximize,close
Hit enter and you are done.

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HowTo: Disable Mouse Scroll to Switch Desktop – OpenBox

HowTo: Switch the Window Menu Buttons Back to the Right – Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 / 11.04