• aaro
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Topic: ShowDesktop mouse shortcut (suggestion)

Imagine this, you have 10 or more open apps and you want to take a rest looking at your beautiful crunchbang desktop (or maybe see your cpu at conky), then you have to click every app to minimize it (or maybe change desktop if the other one is still empty), and you are too lazy to extend your hand and press super+d... anyway, it would be nice that you could simply double click any desktop area and show your desktop. I have already done this by editing the rc file at the mouse bindings section (another great thing of crunchbang you have all config files in the menu), but was thinking of maybe making this the default behaviour for future releases.

Last edited by aaro (2009-11-18 22:46:29)

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Re: ShowDesktop mouse shortcut (suggestion)

Good Idea, maybe you could the entry for the rc.xml wink

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Re: ShowDesktop mouse shortcut (suggestion)

since I'm a 'mostly keyboard'-guy, the first thing I'd do when it would become default is edit it out of my rc.xml smile

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  • aaro
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Re: ShowDesktop mouse shortcut (suggestion)

This is a mouse shortcut, it does not interfere with the keyboard shortcut. Both can coexist smile

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Re: ShowDesktop mouse shortcut (suggestion)

paulsenior wrote:

Good Idea, maybe you could the entry for the rc.xml wink

<mouse>
...
<context name="Desktop">
...
<mousebind button="Left" action="DoubleClick">
<action name="ToggleShowDesktop"/>
</mousebind>
...
</context>
...
</mouse>


pitje wrote:

since I'm a 'mostly keyboard'-guy, the first thing I'd do when it would become default is edit it out of my rc.xml smile

Unless you really dislike the fact of getting the desktop shown when doubleclicking a desktop area, there's no need to do that because this shortcut doesn't modify your keyboard use at all.

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Re: ShowDesktop mouse shortcut (suggestion)

I would bind it to double right click though... sometimes you need to double click with the left mouse button.

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