ALT-scroll zooming

alt-scroll functionality with a touchpad can lead to unwanted zooming behavior if the alt key is pressed while the touchpad gesture is still 'spinning'.

turning off alt-scroll zooming in xfce:

open settings editor
goto xfwm4
zoom_desktop boolean false

to turn off alt-scroll navigation in firefox:

about:config
mousewheel.with_alt.action = 0

Desktop Emacs Keybindings

under xfce

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/KeyThemeName -s Emacs

may need to add --create --type string to above