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.
mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40
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Re: mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40
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.
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
The normal plain 64-bit Ubuntu 20.04 desktop. Both with the host and the guest.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.
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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"
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> VBoxClient --version
6.1.40r154048
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Re: mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40
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.
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
Which is gnome, which is GTK3-based.stephanecharette wrote: The normal plain 64-bit Ubuntu 20.04 desktop. Both with the host and the guest.
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.
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Re: mousewheel problems in VB v6.1.40
i fix it setting the Pointing Device to PS/2 Mouse in the VM configuration
Thank you.
Thank you.