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[Ed Richards]

Here is an interesting phenomonon. It seems that if I move my mouse up against the far right side of my screen, it switches from desktop 1 to desktop2, with the reverse happening if I move to the far left side of the screen. I haven't noticed this until just recently. Have I just missed this in the past or have I somehow unknowingly enabled this "feature"?
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Ed Richards
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[strawnman]

Yeah it is a great linux feature that has been on the kernel for a while. It should work if you go up and down as well. If you continue to move to the right on each screen it will take you back to the original screen.
Here is how you enable it

go to launch/control center/General Settings/window behavior/
and then to the advanced tab
the third section allows you to enable Active Boarder Desktop behavior. You can put it on only when moving windows or always. the line graph below it allows you to tell Xandros how much pressure measured in time that must be exerted at the edge of the window. The shorter the time/pressure the easier it is to pass to the next window.

the best thing about this feature is if you what to put your word doc or internet site on an unused destop, you simply grab it and drag it across to the other screen, then pop back over to your primary screen to get back to work. you can also use this for your calander or time piece what ever you want. Ie. have karamba running only on desktop 2, and the them be a calander then you simply quickly move to the other desktop at a swipe instead of looking it up all the time. In business with sceduling and patient records this feature is the Best.
Eric
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[snellgrove]

FANTASTIC!! IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS!!!!!

ahhhh wonderful, damn thats good, to drag a window.. and see it slide across, on the taskbar.. from one desktop to another.

makes the whole multi-desktop ...way, of working SO much more usable when you can do this!

i also set shortcuts, Fedora style.. ctrl+alt+left/right goes ..well, left or right in desktops.. and ctrl+shift+left or right, moves the currently active window to the next / right or left / last desktop

[strawnman]

yeah this is a cool feature. If many from windows only new what we mean by productivity in linux, I would bet they would change over.
Eric
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[Parallax]

Just off hand is there a way to allow desktop switching by using the scroll wheel of the mouse ala fluxbox?
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[strawnman]

oooo, good question i don't know. you may need to tweak the code a bit. but that is beyond me
Eric
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[XtremXpert]

Ho WOW, thanks guy.

I have two 19" monitors side by side, using 4 virtual display, it's damn faster than click on the good screen icon. I was rocking, now I'm rolling. Pretty cool.

[AdrianTM]

As almost always in open source community somebody has already thought and found or devised a solution

[Parallax]

Yes now my desktop is perfect the ease of kde and the feel of fluxbox!
Thanks very much for the info!
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