Opened 9 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#15269 new defect
shift + scroll wheel inoperative
Reported by: | MikeUatCS | Owned by: | |
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Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 5.0.16 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
Mouse scroll wheel events do not get passed to the guest if Shift key is being held down. This only seems to happen when the host OS is OS X; same VM works as expected if hosted on a Linux host instead. Very inconvenient, as some applications use Shift-scroll to perform specific actions, e.g. horizontal scrolling of a window.
Misbehavior has been noted in multiple applications which use Shift-scroll to perform UI actions. Lack of mouse scroll events when Shift is held has also been verified via the xev tool.
Host is OS X 10.11.3 (El Capitan), guest is Debian 8 (Jessie) running KDE, with up-to-date patches and Guest Additions installed.
It's a pitty that the platform that supports universally horizontal scrolling via Shift+Scrolling, doesn't support in its guests. This is a 3-year old ticket and I believe it should get looked at.
Related discussion in the forums: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=94318