Hi There,
For some reason the mouse scroll wheel issues back and forward browser commands only in FreeBSD 11 and TrueOS as a guest in VirtualBox (osx 10.12.1 host) (all OSes and software versions are most current)
This issue does not occur when running several Linux distros as a guest OS on OSX.
All Web Browsers Firefox, Chromium, and the default theme browsers are affected.
I discovered that someone Linux host FreeBSD guest had the same issue I am experiencing.
forums [dot] freebsd [dot] org/threads/57494/
Thanks in advance for any assistance on this,
Oclair
FreeBSD/TrueOS mouse wheel issues browser back command
Re: FreeBSD/TrueOS mouse wheel issues browser back command
@baitisj posted in the TrueOS chat the following:
so here's the proof. That's running xev and showing the mouse events when I'm scrolling the mouse wheel up and down.
so here's the proof. That's running xev and showing the mouse events when I'm scrolling the mouse wheel up and down.
Re: FreeBSD/TrueOS mouse wheel issues browser back command
I have the same problem in PC-BSD 10.3 64-bit. Host is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit running VirtualBox 5.1.22r115126. pcbsd-meta-virtualboxguest version 1373635705 package is installed (virtualbox-ose-additions) in the PC-BSD guest. Scrolling the mouse wheel up in Firefox somehow causes the browser to go back a page. Then if I scroll down then scroll up again the browser will go forward a page. Scrolling down then up again just repeats the back and forward weirdness. I tried disabling Firefox's Shift + Scroll combo for going back and forward but that made no difference.
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Re: FreeBSD/TrueOS mouse wheel issues browser back command
After two days of search all over the internet, I finally found a working workaround on the internet for this bug.
Like Oclair I tested my mouse action with xev and I obtained the same result as him: if I use my mousewheel up and down, sometimes xorg translates this action with button 8 and 9 instead of 4 and 5.
Next I searched a workaround to ask Xorg to ignore 8 and 9 button of my mouse, I found the solution here:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... n-my-mouse
Like explained in this article, I installed xmodmap, it found 10 button to my mouse, more than I need lol
So I created this .xmodmap file to disable button 8 to 10:
And it works!!! Now enjoy Firefox mousewheel without forward/back annoying bug
Is it a Xorg or Virtualbox bug?
Like Oclair I tested my mouse action with xev and I obtained the same result as him: if I use my mousewheel up and down, sometimes xorg translates this action with button 8 and 9 instead of 4 and 5.
Next I searched a workaround to ask Xorg to ignore 8 and 9 button of my mouse, I found the solution here:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... n-my-mouse
Like explained in this article, I installed xmodmap, it found 10 button to my mouse, more than I need lol
So I created this .xmodmap file to disable button 8 to 10:
Code: Select all
! Disable buttons 8 to 10
pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 0 0
Is it a Xorg or Virtualbox bug?