Scroll workspaces using mousewheel over komorebi-bar | Komorebi Community Server | Page 1

past plinth Mar 25, 2025, 8:13 PM

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I'm just wondering if it's possible to scroll between workspaces using the mousewheel, but only when the mouse is hovering over komorebi-bar.

Basically trying to recreate as much of my i3/sway setup as possible!

inland vault Mar 25, 2025, 8:14 PM

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Short answer: no

Longer answer: this sounds cool 👀 cc @shy sentinel

shy sentinel Mar 25, 2025, 8:52 PM

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inland vault Short answer: no Longer answer: this sounds cool 👀 cc <@1224033508293611540>

@past plinth
yeah, if you hover the egui bar, there might be events we can hook up to and scrolling could be one of them. it is an interesting idea.

would you want to scroll only when hovered over the workspaces widget or anywhere on the bar?

past plinth Mar 25, 2025, 9:04 PM

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In my usual Linux setup, I have it just scrolling workspaces when I'm anywhere over the bar. The bar I use there (waybar) does seem to allow some widgets (like volume) to grab the mousewheel for their own purposes, but I'm happy just for it to be bar-wide behaviour.

lone houndBOT Mar 25, 2025, 9:04 PM

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GG @past plinth, you just advanced to level 1!

shy sentinel Mar 25, 2025, 10:07 PM

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ok, let's see if egui catches anything like that 🙂 (it does have a scrollbar so it should be fine)

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after a quick search it seems to be possible, now I just need time to do it 😅

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 4:19 PM

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@past plinth I am working on this, but the MouseFollowsFocus ruins everything. Do you use it?

past plinth Apr 4, 2025, 4:21 PM

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I hadn't actually turned it off, but I'm doing that right now. 🙂

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 4:22 PM

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right now when you hover over the bar and cycle the workspaces, your mouse will snap to the focused container on your workspace. I find it annoying 😄

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not sure what you use but I have this key bind for whkd. I am not sure what to do, as I cannot turn it off when the cycle command is called.

You can test it with these commands

alt + z                           : komorebic cycle-workspace previous
alt + x                           : komorebic cycle-workspace next

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these are basically the commands that I would call on scroll

inland vault Apr 4, 2025, 4:25 PM

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If you use AHK I think you can bind to mwheel up and down 👀

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You could do alt + mwheel to change workspaces anywhere on the screen

past plinth Apr 4, 2025, 4:25 PM

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I use win + shift + h and win + shift + l, but yes, those are what I'd expect.

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 4:26 PM

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Do you guys have any suggestion? It works just fine, but MouseFollowsFocus needs to be turned off for this to make sense

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I can add a PR so you can try it out. Let me make it look pretty first

past plinth Apr 4, 2025, 4:29 PM

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I mean, I suppose komorebic mouse-follows-focus false ; komorebic cycle-workspace next ; komorebic mouse-follows-focus true would be hideous, and you'd also really more want a toggle command rather than a manual on/off.

lone houndBOT Apr 4, 2025, 4:29 PM

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GG @past plinth, you just advanced to level 2!

past plinth Apr 4, 2025, 4:29 PM

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Oh, there is one.

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 4:29 PM

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we actually do that on some other places. I will try

past plinth Apr 4, 2025, 4:29 PM

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komorebic toggle-mouse-follows-focus

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That causes another problem, though, in that it would break things the other way around.

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Is there a query function?

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 4:31 PM

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we can do this

GitHub

komorebi/komorebi-bar/src/widgets/komorebi.rs at 3c4ccd2504e4994476...

A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉. Contribute to LGUG2Z/komorebi development by creating an account on GitHub.

past plinth Apr 4, 2025, 4:32 PM

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Oh, great.

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 4:32 PM

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I will try this, I almost forgot we did this

past plinth Apr 4, 2025, 4:32 PM

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So I guess it's just the toggle with a conditional for whether it's set or not. 🙂

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Amazing!

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:04 PM

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@past plinth I swear I am using my mouse only

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@inland vault one question, there is a setting I want to add to the config called SCROLL_THRESHOLD. can it be on the bar or it should be on the komorebi config?

inland vault Apr 4, 2025, 5:05 PM

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What does it do? 👀

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:06 PM

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it lets you fine tune the sensitivity of the "tick" at which the message is sent

inland vault Apr 4, 2025, 5:07 PM

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Is that for trackpads?

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:07 PM

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mouse scroll wheel

inland vault Apr 4, 2025, 5:07 PM

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My mouse doesn't do any scrolling unless I do the "click"

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:07 PM

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yeah, let me check

inland vault Apr 4, 2025, 5:07 PM

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Ideally we should just use a sane default and ditch the configurability

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ie. whatever triggers a scroll of a webpage should trigger a scroll event/ws change

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:08 PM

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I am not sure about a "click" I have smooth scrolling as well

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that is why I wanted this in the settings, but the default should be a sensable value

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egui does not send an event on a "click", but scroll vec on each frame, so I need to collect it and do a callback when the threshold is reached

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I will make a PR so you can tell me how much should be the default

inland vault Apr 4, 2025, 5:10 PM

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I think we should probably wrap this whole mouse scrolling callback stuff in another layer

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So it can be a top level config on komorebi bar

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Where the user can select one of N behaviour options for scroll up and scroll down, and the threshold

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Right now we only have ws changing, but this way we can handle other actions in the future

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:11 PM

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oh boy, I thought I am done 😄

past plinth Apr 4, 2025, 5:12 PM

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(Sorry!)

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:12 PM

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I like the idea, so you can choose the command you want

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I will draft a PR then so you guys can test it out and we can add more to it

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:14 PM

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past plinth (Sorry!)

I like this feature, so we might as well make it even better so you never leave komorebi 😄

past plinth Apr 4, 2025, 5:14 PM

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😄

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Not much chance of that, now! Transformed my usage of Windows.

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:26 PM

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I might as well ask, do you have side scroll on your mouse?

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we could make it so you do different things on horizontal and vertical scrolling 😉

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(why am I digging this hole deeper HaHaHidethepain )

inland vault Apr 4, 2025, 5:32 PM

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Lol I do

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Mx Master 3

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:33 PM

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same here

inland vault Apr 4, 2025, 5:33 PM

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Wait you don't feel the "clicks" when you're scrolling? 🤔

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:33 PM

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I use smooth scrolling

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you have that button above the scroll wheel

inland vault Apr 4, 2025, 5:34 PM

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Ooooh

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That's what that's for

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🤣

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:34 PM

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yep, best feature

inland vault Apr 4, 2025, 5:34 PM

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I love doing a big scroll and then feeling the tactile feedback when I stop it haha

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:35 PM

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well, I can see the benefit in having the option to set what you do on vertical and horizontal scroll, so I guess we will have it

inland vault Apr 4, 2025, 5:36 PM

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Oh I realized I actually use the custom gesture button as toggle monocle sometimes

shy sentinel Apr 4, 2025, 5:39 PM

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I don't actually use that button 🙂 try smooth scrolling, it's speed! 🚅

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You can try it out if you want, but I will try to include the features we talked about soon

GitHub

feat(bar): commands on mouse scrolling by CtByte · Pull Request #1...

WIP

shy sentinel Apr 6, 2025, 6:21 PM

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@inland vault @past plinth I did a bit of work on mouse events and you can now use left/right/middle/back/forward/horizontal scroll/vertical scroll to make actions like this

  "mouse": {
    "on_secondary_click": "NewWorkspace",
    "on_middle_click": "CloseWorkspace",
    "horizontal_scroll_threshold": 100,
    "on_scroll_right": "CycleFocusWorkspaceNext",
    "on_scroll_left": "CycleFocusWorkspacePrevious"
  },

Please give it a try and if you have ideas for other commands, just let me know

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you can see your options here

past plinth Apr 6, 2025, 6:25 PM

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shy sentinel <@303962360715018240> <@173311964615933952> I did a bit of work on mouse events ...

Oh, fantastic! I'll try it as soon as I get a chance.

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Thanks so much.

shy sentinel Apr 6, 2025, 6:30 PM

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I think all the toggle and cycle commands could be added and even the flip-layout

perhaps I need a more generic way to send commands so that could be used everywhere in the project 🤔

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@past plinth oh, one thing I should mention is that the "scrolling" should also work on a mouse touchpad and touchscreen. so you can swipe on the bar to send commands too 🙂

shy sentinel Apr 8, 2025, 5:41 PM

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just gonna keep you up to date that you can use custom commands now (supporting env vars!). I think that would be useful

  "mouse": {
    // [...]
    "on_primary_click": "komorebic replace-configuration $Env:USERPROFILE/komorebi.json"
  },

shy sentinel Apr 16, 2025, 11:05 AM

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@inland vault @past plinth The config and other things have changes, check out the pr for more. I think this feels good now.

inland vault Apr 16, 2025, 1:01 PM

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I'll build this later this week, I got very sidetracked with video editing this week

past plinth Apr 16, 2025, 1:03 PM

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Yes, sorry I haven't had much chance to play with this. Incredibly busy time at work, and Easter holidays for the children aren't adding to my available time. 🙂

#Scroll workspaces using mousewheel over komorebi-bar