Only have OnDesktop Mouse5 :NextWorkspace and OnToolbar Mouse5 :NextWindow {static groups} (iconhidden=no). Mouse4 and Mouse5 are the scroll wheel and my scroll wheel is locked to prevent accidental scrolling.
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It is definitely inconsistent and surprising. I would expect left/right click to only work on the buttons. Or left-click to only work on the left-half, and right-click to work on the right-half. I don't understand why left-click works on the workspace name as well as the workspace-left button.
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Workspace switching on the toolbar via the mouse buttons
It's actually also documented (and technically the thing is a button), but there's no explanation on why this was added. Not sure whether it's "definitely inconsistent" - I assume it was meant to substitute the prev/next buttons.
Maybe Mathias recalls the change?
Fyi and since you seem to "insist" on the left button, it actually covers left and right button.
In case your desire is some dead space to click (to just deactivate any window), there's another bugreport that points towards adding a stretch element to the toolbar.
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please provide your .fluxbox/keys file. i predict, that there will be something like OnToolbar MouseN :NextWorkspace
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OnDesktop Mouse5 :NextWorkspaceandOnToolbar Mouse5 :NextWindow {static groups} (iconhidden=no). Mouse4 and Mouse5 are the scroll wheel and my scroll wheel is locked to prevent accidental scrolling.The left/right click behavior is actually hardcoded into ToolFactory.cc
Looks intended, do you consider it a bug?
It is definitely inconsistent and surprising. I would expect left/right click to only work on the buttons. Or left-click to only work on the left-half, and right-click to work on the right-half. I don't understand why left-click works on the workspace name as well as the workspace-left button.
commit 0810d7db5e87d9541daabac98a4b8b2d0f431b69
Author: Soeren Beye
Date: Wed Feb 27 09:44:49 2013 +0100
It's actually also documented (and technically the thing is a button), but there's no explanation on why this was added. Not sure whether it's "definitely inconsistent" - I assume it was meant to substitute the prev/next buttons.
Maybe Mathias recalls the change?
Fyi and since you seem to "insist" on the left button, it actually covers left and right button.
In case your desire is some dead space to click (to just deactivate any window), there's another bugreport that points towards adding a stretch element to the toolbar.
In case this is about the dead space only, https://github.com/luebking/fluxbox/commits/the_iconbar adds a spacer item (ie. you can add random amounts of dead space everywhere ;-)
You'll be able to add dead space in 1.4.0 - would that cover your case?
https://github.com/fluxbox/fluxbox/commit/f6e1f555f91059a0462db7d60b3a0923fed25652