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This is triggered by holding Alt and rolling the scrollwheel (or, on a touchpad, moving two fingers vertically). Since you mention sticky keys: If they are on, the Alt keypress and the scroll even...
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#2: Post edited
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Quasímodo
·
2022-01-03T13:15:29Z (almost 3 years ago)
Expand on sticky keys
This is triggered by Alt+Scrollwheel. To disable it,- - Using CLI:
- xfconf-query -s false -c xfwm4 -p /general/zoom_desktop
- - Using GUI:
- Find Settings Editor in your menu (if you can't, just run `xfce4-settings-editor`), select the `xfwm4` channel and uncheck the **zoom_desktop** value.
Attribution: [Ask Ubuntu: How can I disable Alt-Scroll zoom in XFCE4](https://askubuntu.com/questions/479465/how-can-i-disable-alt-scroll-zoom-in-xfce4-xubuntu).
- This is triggered by holding Alt and rolling the scrollwheel (or, on a touchpad, moving two fingers vertically).
- Since you mention sticky keys: If they are on, the Alt keypress and the scroll event would not even need to occur simultaneously to trigger magnification.
- To disable magnification,
- - Using CLI:
- xfconf-query -s false -c xfwm4 -p /general/zoom_desktop
- - Using GUI:
- Find Settings Editor in your menu (if you can't, just run `xfce4-settings-editor`), select the `xfwm4` channel and uncheck the **zoom_desktop** value.
- Attribution: [Ask Ubuntu: How can I disable Alt-Scroll zoom in XFCE4](https://askubuntu.com/questions/479465/how-can-i-disable-alt-scroll-zoom-in-xfce4-xubuntu).
- To disable sticky keys,
- - Using CLI:
- xfconf-query -s false -c accessibility -p /StickyKeys
- - Using GUI:
- - Accessibility > Keyboard > Use sticky keys; or
- - Find Settings Editor in your menu (if you can't, just run `xfce4-settings-editor`), select the `accessibility` channel and uncheck the **Sticky_Keys** value.
#1: Initial revision
by
Quasímodo
·
2022-01-03T12:54:52Z (almost 3 years ago)
This is triggered by Alt+Scrollwheel. To disable it,
- Using CLI:
xfconf-query -s false -c xfwm4 -p /general/zoom_desktop
- Using GUI:
Find Settings Editor in your menu (if you can't, just run `xfce4-settings-editor`), select the `xfwm4` channel and uncheck the **zoom_desktop** value.
Attribution: [Ask Ubuntu: How can I disable Alt-Scroll zoom in XFCE4](https://askubuntu.com/questions/479465/how-can-i-disable-alt-scroll-zoom-in-xfce4-xubuntu).