How can I disable switching between different 'WORKSPACES' by scrolling mouse wheel over the dock?

Question

I want to disable switching between different Workspaces by scrolling the mouse wheel when the pointer is over the dock of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I tried the following solutions:

solution_1

solution_2

solution_3

but none of them worked. I also tried downloading gnome extension manager and searching for the relevant extensions but couldn't find one.

System: Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Kernel version 5.15.0-30-generic, GNOME Shell version 42.0

Gnome4 won't let you do it. It always creates one more workspace than you've occupied. — kanehekili, Aug 06 '22 at 18:27
@kanehekili, I want to use multiple workspaces but don't want to switch between them by scrolling the mouse wheel. — TheMaskedTitan, Aug 06 '22 at 19:43
Same. Florian Müllner (which is one of the few gnome developers that really supports users) mentions it here. The gist is to write your own addon. — kanehekili, Aug 06 '22 at 20:42
The link in your first solution worked immediately for me on Ubuntu 22.04. — Ring, Feb 17 '23 at 18:05
Does this answer your question? Disable switching between different desktops with mouse scroll — muru, May 01 '23 at 05:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 01 '23 at 04:47

Initially the solution_1 mentioned in my question was not working when I posted this question. But for some reason now it's working.

You have to do the following as mentioned in solution_1:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock scroll-action 'do-nothing'

How can I disable switching between different 'WORKSPACES' by scrolling mouse wheel over the dock?

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