compizmouseunityworkspaces
I want to use mouse bindings in the Compiz Desktop Wall to go to different Workspaces by clicking the mouse in the corners. Does anyone know how to make this work?
I've already tried to do it so in CCSM and in gconf-editor (apps -> compiz -> plugins-> wall-> options) but I can't enable it. The configuration is there but it's not working.
The Super+W shortcut shows you miniature (scaled) versions of all the windows in your current workspace, and you can click on any one of them to switch to it.
The somewhat oddly named scale window title filter allows you to type and filter windows out in the scaled view based on the titles of the windows. It's useful to narrow down things when you have many applications/windows open.
You will need the Compiz Config Settings Manager (ccsm) and some extra Compiz plugins. Open up the Software Center, search for (a) "compizconfig" and (b) "compiz-plugins-extra" and install those packages (see screenshots below). (Those who prefer apt-get can install the packages compizconfig-settings-manager and compiz-plugins-extra instead)
Close the Software Center.
Statutory Warning: Compiz Config Settings Manager is an advanced tool and one tiny mistake, typo or an accidental click of the mouse can leave your desktop unusable, requiring time and effort to fix it. Please be very careful and follow instructions...thanks. If you mess up, please see this answer on how to fix things.
CCSM can become unstable and crash if you try changing settings with multiple windows open. I highly recommend you close all running applications before trying this.
Start CCSM from the Dash by typing "compiz" and clicking on its icon:
Type "title" in CCSM's Filter box to see the "Scale Window Title Filter" appear on the right side (see screenshot below). Click on the checkbox next to it, and it will be highlighted orange. You may get a popup asking to also enable the "Text" filter -- click OK if that happens. Close CCSM.
In this example, we'll use a workspace with six windows: two Terminals, one Firefox, one Writer, one Software Center and one System Settings.
Press Super+W to bring up the scaled windows:
Typing one letter s reduces the windows shown from six to the four that have s in their titles: Software Center, System Settings and the two terminals (because my machine has "precise" in its name):
Typing something unique to the title of an application -- my username izx -- reduces the windows to the two terminals:
Similarly, wri for Writer shows you just that window, nearly maximized.
Click on any window at any point to bring it to the front.
As you Backspace out while typing, the view is adjusted to match.
You can clear the filter and go back to the unfiltered full view by pressing Esc at any time.
Start CCSM again (be careful!), filter for "title" and click on the "Scale Window Title Filter" to bring up its settings. Exce
Under "Behaviour" (best left untouched) you can set the:
Under "Appearance", you can adjust:
Sources: Compiz Wiki
Best Answer
It looks like I found a way around to deal with the problem for binding the mouse corner over Unity. To do this I installed a program called xdotool to be able to execute commands to be sent till X. I found this answer over the OMG Ubuntu when they talk about binding the upper-left corner to auto open the Desktop Wall utility and for my surprise it worked like a charm. So here go the steps to do for making this way around.
Install xdotool:
sudo apt-get install xdotoolOpen ccsm and go to your settings in Desktop Wall (Or whatever you want to bind, Ring Swichter for example)
Look at the commands that you have for binding the edge that you want. For me for example I have to command to switch till the left workspace is ctrl+alt+Left. This is the keystrokes that you have to know to create your binding edge. The others bindings, in my case are ctrl+alt+Rigt, ctrl+alt+Up and ctrl+alt+Down.
In ccsm go to the Commands option
Here we have to enter the xdotoll commands. At command line 1 I already entered the command to open the Unity Desktop Wall Utility so at command line 2 I put the command:
xdotool key ctrl+alt+RigthNow go to Edge Bindings tab to create the edge bind.
Now click over the Run command 2 to create the bind.
Choose the right corner and click OK
At this point the ccsm might pop-up that if you want to create this bind you have to disable the Flip Edge effect. I dont even knew that I had this on, it might be enable by default from the Unity. Thats no problem in disable it and enable this bind, so just disable the Flip Edge and enable this new bind (This one is for the Flip Edge effect is from rotate cube binding, and at this example we are using the Desktop Wall, so if you dont had the rotating cube enable it might dont pop up this message).
For creating the new binds for the other corners you just have to follow the same steps as you did for creating the right edge. But please read about the left-edge. The code for the other edges are:
xdotool key ctrl+alt+Upxdotool key ctrl+alt+DownThe Left edge
xdotool key ctrl+alt+LeftFor the left-edge dont use the left corner, instead use the lower-left corner or the upper-left corner. Because the left edge is used by the Unity to hide/access the Unity launcher (dock) and if you disable the default Unity effect IT WILL BROKE your Compiz/Unity. So be careful about disabling the unity effect if it pop it.
So once again, if pop up a compiz message asking for disable the Unity dont disable it, just change the corner to lower-left or upper-left corners.
I hope that it could help you out.