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dklovelaceaz

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Registered: 2015-02-20

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How do I map ALT-Mouse Button to windows raise or lower

I want to map the windows raise/lower to:

raise: Alt-mouse button 1
lower: Alt-mouse button 3

I could do this in KDE but cannot find any way to do it in XFCE. I am using XFCE since my workstation has been "upgraded" to RHEL 6 which includes the utterly useless KDE 4.3 and I have gone to the trouble of compiling (I don't have root privileges to install) Xfce 4.10 and setting it up.

I really want to do this simple raise/lower command and have not been able to find any other way to accomplish this.

If not possible, is there any way to use xbindkeys to accomplish this? I tried to use xbindkeys to pass the alt-mouse to the key bindings set up in xfce, but it does not seem to work.

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: How do I map ALT-Mouse Button to windows raise or lower

You must be using something like focus follows mouse.

If not possible, is there any way to use xbindkeys to accomplish this? I tried to use xbindkeys to pass the alt-mouse to the key bindings set up in xfce, but it does not seem to work.

Try these xbindkeys functions:

#Raise a window
"xdotool key shift+alt+Page_Up"
   alt + b:1

...and:

#Lower a window
"xdotool key shift+alt+Page_Down"
   alt + b:3

Note: You need to have xdotool installed.

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dklovelaceaz

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Registered: 2015-02-20

Posts: 2

Re: How do I map ALT-Mouse Button to windows raise or lower

Thanks. That did the trick. I had been playing with xdotool and had even tried to use xte to pass the commands using xbindkeys, but the xdotools did the trick.