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rmmoul
Asked: 2014-06-27 12:43:53 +0800 CST

Turn off scroll wheel application switching in Cairo Dock

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Does anyone know of a way to disable application switching when the scroll wheel gets bumped while the mouse is hovering over the Cairo Dock?

I don't see any options for this in the settings, but it's a fairly annoying "feature" that I'm hoping someone else has found a way to turn off.

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    Unfortunately, despite the plethora of options available to customize Cairo-dock, the ability to turn off application switching with the scollbar is not one of them. It seems that there's no way to turn it off because it's considered a basic feature (see the description of Cairo-Dock's taskbar on this page), one that is found in other desktop environments as well (e.g. Unity works the same way if the applications are open on the same workspace).

    To remove the functionality you will have to recompile the source, as explained in an answer on the Cairo-Dock forums. User matttbe provided a links on how to recompile Cairo-Dock (and specifically how to do so in Ubuntu) and stated that to disable all actions that will occur after scrolling on an icon remove these lines below from the src/cairo-dock.c source file:

    gldi_object_register_notification (&myContainerObjectMgr,
    NOTIFICATION_SCROLL_ICON,
    (GldiNotificationFunc) cairo_dock_notification_scroll_icon,
    GLDI_RUN_AFTER, NULL);
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