Spaces: howto disable Switch by dragging

Hi folks,

this is driving me nuts: using spaces, I can drag a window the a screen border, wait a while and Spaces switches to another space. However, using an application where I need to do other drag operations (Logic Pro in my case), causes spaces to switch when I drag something within the application and reach the screen border.

This behavior is absolutely annoying. I regularly need to grab a Region in the time line, drag far left or right to cause Logic to start scrolling. Now, Spaces will switch and I´m off my application.

So my question is: Is there a hack or option to disable the Spaces "Screen Border move" feature?

MacPro, Mac OS X (10.6.2), MacBook Pro

Posted on Mar 20, 2010 3:14 AM

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Posted on Mar 20, 2010 6:02 AM

You can set the delay to something high which effectively stops it.
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay 15
killall Dock
The delay setting is in seconds. You have to restart the Dock after changing it, which is what the killall command does.
I tried various things like 0 and -1 to stop it, but that didn't work. I set it to 15 seconds and waited and never had it switch.
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Mar 20, 2010 6:02 AM in response to spacerunner

You can set the delay to something high which effectively stops it.
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay 15
killall Dock
The delay setting is in seconds. You have to restart the Dock after changing it, which is what the killall command does.
I tried various things like 0 and -1 to stop it, but that didn't work. I set it to 15 seconds and waited and never had it switch.
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