How to disable ctrl + scroll zoom in Lubuntu or openbox

Question

If are you in Google Chrome, Firefox or a software that have the zoom functionality, when you press CTRL + SCROLL UP/DOWN` or TOUCHPAD SCROLL the page increase/decrease the zoom how to disable it?

Answer 1

In your ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml or rc.xml at:

 <mouse>
    ....
    <context name="Frame">
     .......

1. set this:

   <!-- prevent that the browsers do zoom in/out when navigating with ctrl + scroll up/down -->
   <mousebind button="C-Up" action="Click" >
           <action name="Focus"/>
   </mousebind>
   <mousebind button="C-Down" action="Click" >
           <action name="Focus"/>
   </mousebind>
   

2. Type openbox --reconfigure in terminal to check the changes, if the changes has broken it will validate.

It's all.

Answer 2

Use block-scroll-mod-x11. That will disable zooming only, if you press a modifier key after scrolling has started.