How to turn off desktop switching with mouse wheel in LXDE

[sneckert]

Here I go again. it's probably something simple but I can't remember how to do it.    I reinstalled PCLinuxOS with LXDE last week for reasons not related to this question. Now I have a problem with the mouse wheel changing the desktop every time I turn it. This is annoying when reading an e-mail or web page and I turn the wheel to scroll up or down the page and the cursor is just off the edge of the window. Before I reinstalled everything I could turn the wheel with the mouse on the background and it wouldn't change the desktop on me. I've looked though 3 Linux forums and searched dozens of pages in Google, all I find is how to stop this in KDE, none of which work in LXDE. Has anyone got any info on how to turn this on and off? Thank you, Stephen

[The Chief]

No, I don't have an answer, but the solution is easy. 

Don't spin the wheel when the cursor is on the desktop!   

[ghostbunny]

The problem isn't directly related to lxde it's related to openbox the window manager.

open the file /home/<you>/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml with a editor and look for the following

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<mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
        <action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
      </mousebind>
      <mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
        <action name="DesktopNext"/>
      </mousebind>
replace it by

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<!-- <mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
        <action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
      </mousebind>
      <mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
        <action name="DesktopNext"/>
      </mousebind>-->

than open a terminal and enter

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openbox --restart
regards
ghostbunny

[pags]

You could also look into changing if the window focus follows the mouse (so that the desktop doesn't get focus when you're not "on" the window you want to scroll)...

I don't know LXDE off the top of my head...does this help?:
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1758

[sneckert]

ghostbunny and pags;

No good! I tried them both and it still wants to change desktops.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Stephen

[ghostbunny]

strange i tested my solution and it was working for me, or maybe it just works for touchpads