On 08/22/13 21:42, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:21:05 -0700 > Galen Seitz <[email protected]> dijo: > >>> At the Clinic Keith attempted to figure out what was going on, so I >>> thought I ought to tell the list what the problem was. It turns out >>> that the scroll wheel on my mouse (which doubles as the >>> middle mouse button) occasionally takes it into its little rodent >>> head that, instead of scrolling, it ought to send Ctrl-Alt-arrow. I >>> have only two workspaces set up, and I never use the other one but, >>> sure enough, when everything disappeared this evening I tried >>> Ctrl-Alt-arrow and, sure enough, everything was back. >>> >>> The mouse is a wireless USB mouse, Dynex brand, from Best Buy. On the >>> back it says "Made in China." >> >> I think this is normal behavior for XFCE. Under CentOS 6.4 with >> xfce4, when the pointer is on the root window, the scroll wheel will >> either increment or decrement the active workspace number. > > What is the root window?
"... the root window is visible as the part of the screen that is behind all other windows. In other words, the root window forms the background of the screen." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_window galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
