How can I disable Alt-Scroll zoom in XFCE4 (Xubuntu)

Question

In XFCE4 desktop environments, alt+scroll wheel zooms my entire desktop. I'm finding this very annoying because sometimes I flick the scroll wheel to go to the top of a document then press the alt key for a some unrelated keyboard shortcut and find myself zoomed in so far I can't see anything at all.

Is there any way to disable this feature?

Answer 1

There is an easy way, without losing the moving windows feature.

1. Open Settings Editor
2. Go to Channel xfwm4
3. Disable Property zoom_desktop

Answer 2

Here is how disable this feature from the command line:

xfconf-query --set false --channel xfwm4 --property /general/zoom_desktop

If you get this message:

Property "/general/zoom_desktop" does not exist on channel "xfwm4".
If a new property should be created, use the --create option.

then run this command instead:

xfconf-query --create --type bool --set false --channel xfwm4 --property /general/zoom_desktop

Answer 3

To activate or deactivate, there is also another option in Window Manager Tweaks. Under Compositor, the option to enable or disable display compositing will also enable or disable desktop zoom.

Answer 4

To disable this setting from the gui now in xfce4, do the following:

1. Click your Application launcher icon (typically the top-left corner of the screen) & select "Run Program..." Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut "Win-R"
2. In the "Application Finder" window that appears, type: xfwm4-tweaks-settings and click "Launch"
3. Click "Compositor" tab
4. Untick 'Zoom desktop with mouse wheel'
5. Click "Close"

Answer 5

If you still want to be able to use desktop zooming, I have a couple of tricks by which you may be able to prevent accidental desktop zooming.

You can control which key is bind to desktop zooming at Window Manager Tweaks > Accessibility > Key used to grab and move windows. You can even select "none" so that it effectively disables desktop zooming, but that will disable the mentioned window grabbing function, too. Someone has requested ability to configure a distinct key for the zooming feature here.

I made a utility that you can run in background. It blocks subsequent scrolling events (and other events of the given pointer device), while you press a modifier key after starting scrolling in X11. That is especially useful, if you device has inertial scrolling function that you can not or do not want to disable. See my answer for another question for more details.

Answer 6

In manjaro I did this on the settings editor

Here you have to uncheck zoom_desktop value:

Answer 7

Translation:

Opens the System Setup window, then enter the administrator settings window and section accessibility this box that enables or disables this function.

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Abre la ventana de configuración del sistema, luego entra al gestor de ajustes de ventana y en la sección accesibilidad esta la casilla que habilita o deshabilita esta función.