Hi,
I am using fvwm and usually switch between desktops by scrolling to the edge of the screen or by using the pager. I have however just invested in a new laser mouse which has a tilting wheel on it and I thought it would be pretty useful to map the wheel up, down, left and right to the root window and switch virtual desktops with them.
SO, if I press to the right, it will move one desktop to the right, the same with any other direction of course!

I am fine with mapping the mouse buttons, my only issue is I am unsure how to switch desktop windows. Is there a function/module which can be called to navigate around desktops?

I know it can be done as I have found a reference to it online, only the author doesn't tell how s/he has done it!

Thanks

hmmm... after just trying something out, it seems I lied! My mouse has the tilt wheel but I cannot seem to bind to this using the standard mouse identifiers (Mouse 5 etc). When I press the side button in the root window, the builtin fvwm menu pops up so it must be picking up the signal somehow. I have tied mapping buttons 6-9 to NoOp (4 and 5 are scroll up and down) however this does not work.

I have used xev and it shows the buttons being send as 6, 7 and 8 respectively. I have tried re-mapping these using xmodmap but to no avail!

Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks

How the buttons are mapped doesn't have anything to do with fvwm, it's X which does that. Each wheel is really two buttons, one for each direction (plus another one if the wheel is clickable). Since your buttons are doing things that are bound to some other button (i.e., display a menu) then my guess is that your mouse is not correctly configured.

As said, that's an Xorg thing, so you will have to fix it either by correctly tunning your xorg.conf or your hal policies if you are using hal to configure your X hardware. Things like the number of buttons and the mouse protocol are configurable this way. That's probably where your problem lies, I can't be sure though.