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Switch between desktops scrolling at edge of the screen, including in overview. You can configure wich side of the screen the scroller will work.

Desktop Scroller Gnome 3 Extension

This extension allows you to switch between workspaces by scolling your mouse wheel on the left or right edge of your screen and also when the mouse is over your desktop background.

Extension is based on the previous work by

Installing

Copy folder contents into:

$HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desktop-scroller@brorlandi/

and restart gnome-shell. Don't forget to enable it.

Schemas

When you change the schema for the preferences you have to compile it again.

Compile with: $ glib-compile-schemas --strict schemas/

Translations

Extract the translateable strings into messages.pot:

$ xgettext -k_ -kN_ -o po/desktop-scroller.pot extension.js prefs.js

Create a new translation for e.g. swedish:

$ LANG=de_DE msginit -i po/desktop-scroller.pot

Move the resulting file (de.po) into the po/ folder.

Or update a translation with new strings:

$ msgmerge -U po/de.po po/desktop-scroller.pot

Finally create a machine readable file:

$ msgfmt po/de.po -o locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/desktop-scroller.mo