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Alt + scroll combination not working

Posted: 9. Feb 2019, 14:16
by francescoboc
Hello everybody,
I have an Ubuntu 18 host/Windows 7 guest system with Photoshop installed. Everything is working great, apart from one thing: the Alt + scroll combination for zooming in/out. Doesn't matter if I do it with the mouse wheel or using the touchpad scroll with two fingers, it just isn't detected. The strange thing is that the Ctrl + scroll combo works perfectly...
I don't think it is a Windows-related issue, because if I enable the USB mouse in VirtualBox (under Devices>USB), then it works fine (but I lose the mouse integration feature, which is annoying).
Anybody has a suggestion on how to solve the problem?

Thank you very much!

Re: Alt + scroll combination not working

Posted: 9. Feb 2019, 18:35
by socratis
francescoboc wrote:if I enable the USB mouse in VirtualBox (under Devices>USB), then it works fine
Can you expand a bit more on the details of your setup? Something doesn't sound right... Anything extra drivers on your host? Any exotic devices?

Re: Alt + scroll combination not working

Posted: 9. Feb 2019, 19:20
by francescoboc
Sorry, I meant Ubuntu 18 host/Windows 7 guest (I edited the first post).
No, no extra drivers or exotic devices. Just standard libinput drivers that come with Ubuntu.

Re: Alt + scroll combination not working

Posted: 9. Feb 2019, 20:03
by socratis
The Alt maybe an Ubuntu thingy then. I still don't understand the relationship with the grabbing the mouse via USB... Maybe an Ubuntu thing again, where if it doesn't have the mouse, the Alt is not grabbed? Not that much of a Linux expert, see if you can find anything related on that front...

Re: Alt + scroll combination not working

Posted: 9. Feb 2019, 21:18
by francescoboc
The Alt is grabbed, indeed many other combinations work, it is just the Alt + scroll movement that is broken. Yea, if I activate the USB mouse everything is fine. I think it is something related to the mouse integration feature.

Re: Alt + scroll combination not working

Posted: 16. Jul 2019, 13:50
by michaln
Qt on Linux (specifically the xcb platform plugin) is this, Alt + vertical scroll changes to horizontal scroll and vice versa. We're not sure why.