GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 675615
Mouse scrollwheel not working in local Windows XP guest
Last modified: 2016-03-31 13:59:53 UTC
Created attachment 213592 [details] Output of `sudo virsh dumpxml WinXP-Pro` carl@chaffinch:~$ rpm -q gnome-boxes gnome-boxes-3.4.1-1.fc17.x86_64 "WinXP-Pro" is a VM created using virt-manager, configured to use a graphics tablet and mouse (following, I believe, libvirt or QEMU defaults), as well as a SPICE connection for graphics -- the configuration XML is attached below. When viewing that VM in gnome-boxes, mouse scrollwheel events are apparently not received by the guest -- I don't know of an "xev" equivalent on Windows, and haven't yet had time to test on a GNU/Linux guest. Scrolling does not work, throughout the guest operating system. "Special" keyboard keys, other mouse events, and everything else all seem to be working as they should be. This is apparently a problem specific to boxes -- scrolling has worked fine in vinagre (using SPICE or VNC), and also works in `remote-viewer`. It does not seem to make a difference whether the VM is started using virt-manager or boxes itself. Please let me know which other config files (or logs) would be helpful in diagnosing this issue.
hi, what's your version of spice-gtk? Could you try with 0.12? thanks
it could be that we need to modify display-page.vala event_box.set_events (EventMask.POINTER_MOTION_MASK); add add | EventMask.SCROLL_MASK If you could give it a try, that would be nice :)
Thanks for the (amazingly fast!) reply. carl@chaffinch:~$ rpm -q spice-gtk spice-gtk-0.12-2.fc17.x86_64 I'll try making that change now, cheers.
With that change applied, scrolling works fine. Thank you for your help.