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- middle button did not work to rotate the Cube. In my old setup, when in a window the middle button acted like a regular middle button, but outside of a window it rotated the Cube. As far as I can tell, Mate does not support this context-switching (I’m not sure how I got it working that way on my old system). I tried a dozen or so different alternatives using Mate Tweak, and somehow during this process I managed to get Rotate Cube working with the middle button - but now I can’t use the middle button to do X11 Paste, since the context switching isn’t there. I can, of course, use the Edit menu copy/paste so that’s OK. For me, the ability to rotate the cube with only the mouse is important - the keyboard is often out of reach or my other hand is busy with something else.
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For anyone else wanting to get Rotate Cube working with middle mouse button, it’s easy … when you know where to look
CompizConfig Settings Manager > Viewport Switcher > Desktop-based Viewport Switching
The 3 settings at the bottom need to be:
Initiate plugin action - Button2
Plugin for initiate action - rotate
Action name for initiate - initiate_button
As well as Viewport Switcher you will also need Desktop Cube enabled ( obviously ) and also Rotate Cube.
Then clicking and holding middle mouse button while moving the mouse will enable ‘3D’ rotation of the cube.
BTW, if you want to just switch viewports with the mouse ( rather than spin up the whole cube ) you may want to try this. Simply placing mouse on desktop and scrolling will move you right/left through the viewposts. Great for a quick copy-‘n’-paste across windows in different viewports.