mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40

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mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40

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Long installed Ubuntu guest running in Ubuntu host. Upgraded 2 days ago from VB 6.1.38 (?) to 6.1.40. On my host the mouse and mousewheel are working fine. Guest additions are updated and installed in the guest.

In my full-screen Ubuntu guest, the mouse wheel works, but only sporadically. I spin the wheel and about 1/2 the time it works, the other times it is as if I've done nothing. No other hardware changes have taken place, and as I said it works fine in the host so I'm certain it isn't a hardware failure.

Did a search in the forum, and I see older posts about mousewheel issues, but nothing recent. Curious to know if anyone else is seeing mouse wheel problems.
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Re: mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40

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Known issue and probably already fixed! :)

Please see 21162.
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Re: mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40

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Nope - unless the comments are hopelessly wrong, this is the exact *opposite* of that bug. :)
One is events being duplicated, and one is events being lost.

@stephane: what DE are you using? (both host and guest). If either one is based on GTK3 then that's the root of your problem.
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Re: mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40

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arQon wrote:@stephane: what DE are you using? (both host and guest). If either one is based on GTK3 then that's the root of your problem.
The normal plain 64-bit Ubuntu 20.04 desktop. Both with the host and the guest.

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> cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS"
Usual guest additions installed in the guest:

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> VBoxClient --version
6.1.40r154048
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Re: mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40

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Did you try the workaround (setting the Pointing Device to PS/2 Mouse in the VM configuration)?

Mouse issues that only occur with VirtualBox 6.1.40 are probably related to 21139. This has been fixed for VirtualBox 6.1.42. As a workaround, you could try and set the Pointing Device to PS/2 Mouse in the VM configuration.
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Re: mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40

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stephanecharette wrote: The normal plain 64-bit Ubuntu 20.04 desktop. Both with the host and the guest.
Which is gnome, which is GTK3-based.

1) Start with fth0's suggestion.
2) If that doesn't work, add GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1 to /etc/environment and reboot.
3) If that doesn't work either, you'll need to get help from the gnome forums.

gl
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Re: mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40

Post by Javier Ordoñez Ojeda »

i fix it setting the Pointing Device to PS/2 Mouse in the VM configuration
Thank you.
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