Hi Leslie,
You can use the scrollwheel on your mouse to switch screens by
placing the mouse cursor over the 'Desktop Preview and Pager' applet in
your panel and rolling the scrollwheel, or by clicking on the desired
screen rectangle in the Desktop Preview and Pager grid.
Thanks for the suggestion. Normally, I can switch desktop using the wheel
of the mouse. However, when in snapshot mode (import or ksnapshot) using
the wheel has no effect either. If I click on the desired screen
rectangle, as you suggest, then it takes a snapshot of that section of the
panel. So, switching desktops after entering snapshot mode seems not
possible. However, ksnapshot is still helpful in mitigating the issue. In
fact, after entering `ksnapshot` a new window appears with ksnapshot
options. I can then move that window to the desired desktop and click on
"New Snapshot", which makes the window with options disappear so I can
take a snapshot of what I need to. I hope TDE lives for very long.
Gianluca
On Sat, 28 Oct 2023, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2023-10-27 18:00:14 you wrote:
Dear TDE users list,
This is a problem probably outside of TDE. I often use ImageMagick import
to take a snapshot of part of my screen, such as a particular image. With
previous installations, up to openSUSE 15.2 (and TDE), I have always been
able to enter something like:
import test.ppm
and then either use for example Ctrl+F4 or Alt+Tab to switch to a
different desktop or window. However, with openSUSE 15.4 (tested with TDE
and LXDE) after entering the command for import the keyboard freezes and I
cannot switch desktop or window, neither I can exit import by pressing
Ctrl+C. The mouse still works and I can still take a screenshot of
whatever is on the screen. However, this makes it more combersome to take
a screenshot. The interesting thing is that it seems like whatever I type
on the keyboard is "queued" and executed once import exits (by drawing a
rectangle with the mouse). So eventually it still switches but only after
import is done.
If anybody has encountered this same problem and has a possible solution,
I would be glad to hear.
Thanks,
Gianluca
There are three workarounds that you can use to switch screens without using
the keyboard:
You can use the scrollwheel on your mouse to switch screens by placing the
mouse cursor over the 'Desktop Preview and Pager' applet in your panel and
rolling the scrollwheel, or by clicking on the desired screen rectangle in
the Desktop Preview and Pager grid.
You can also check 'Mouse wheel over desktop background switches desktop' in
Control Center => Desktop => Multiple Desktops.
You can also change 'Active Desktop Borders' to 'Always enabled' in Control
Center => Desktop => Window Behavior, Advanced tab, which allows you to
change screens by pushing the mouse cursor against one of the four edges of
the current screen.
HTH,
Leslie
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Platform: Linux
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 - x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.1.0
tde-config: 1.0
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