Edge + mouse button functionality now working

[mikedee]

As of today's git the edge + mouse button functionality is now working :)

This means that you can assign actions to edges but only with a mouse button. You can use this to do 3 things at the moment.

1. Use the switcher with the mouse wheel whilst you are on the top of the screen (no more rsi from alt+tab).
2. Rotate the cube with the mouse wheel, when on left or right edge.
3. Activate switcher with TopRight and right mouse button (no more misfires with the corners)

To activate these features you need to set the edge and an edgebutton. eg. to rotate the cube with the wheel when on right or left.

Change rotate/allscreens/options/rotate_left_edge and rotate_right_edge to Left and Right.

Change rotate/allscreens/options/rotate_left_edgebutton to 4 and rotate/allscreens/options/rotate_right_edgebutton to 5.

Please have a play with the settings and see if there is anything that you would like to do with edge + mouse which isnt possible at the moment (each action needs to be individually enabled).

[watkin5]

snow starts/stops on top edge, please

[mikedee]

It should work already, set the snow initiate edge and edge button. There was a problem with the original snow schema, you can type these to fix it.

rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/compiz/plugins/snow/
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz/plugins/snow
gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=snow.schema

The initiate keys should begin with a lower case i rather than an upper case one

[watkin5]

Thank you mikedee, that worked a treat.

[sliwowitz]

It doesn't work for me, or at least not the way it used to work in Beryl. I can only rotate while the pointer is over the desktop wallpaper and no window is between them. If there is a window covering the screen edge (ie. when it's maximised), the buttons won't make the cube rotate.

[tribaal]

Confirmed - this works, but only when the mouse in over a "system area" (desktop or gnome panels for example). It doesn't work when the pointer is over an application window (like firefox for example).

Cheers :)

- trib'

[RYX]

It should work anywhere on the edge, no matter what app/win is below ...