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Ubuntu: Turn off changing workspace with mouse wheel | 3 Comments

Posted in Snippets on 2nd June 2009, 9:21 am by

I found the changing with the workspace with the mouse wheel really annoying. To disable it go to System => Preferences => CompizConfig (available if the compizconfig-settings-manager package is installed) and uncheck “Viewport Switcher” which is under the “Desktop” heading.

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  • jose

    excelent man, thk, these tips are gold

  • kamran

    It is such as nasty, stupid feature they have put in Ubuntu.

  • http://muffinresearch.co.uk Stuart Colville

    @kamran: I could be wrong but I’m not sure this is just an Ubuntu thing it’s part of compiz…

GNU screen: open tab in current working directory|(1)

A nice trick for having screen open a new tab in the same directory as the one you’re currently in. To use it add it to your .screenrc

# Open new window in current dir.
bind c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"
bind ^c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"

Hat tip: mteckert on SuperUser.com

Ubuntu: add-apt-repository: command not found|(3)

When you’re using a minimal Ubuntu install if you find the ‘add-apt-repository’ command is missing (it’s useful for adding PPAs and other repositories), then simply run:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

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