Mouse scrolling too fast (pageup/pagedown triggered) -> Fixed in SVN

Confirmed here whatever mouse is used (I first suspected the Apple magic mouse but a regular mouse exhibit the same, painful, behavior), the fix for http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5049 is probably related.

host: OSX 10.6 guest: Ubuntu 9.10

I failed to mention that the *cursor* is moved which is the main source of problems since the target of the events is changed accordingly (irritating targets include: the tab line in FireFox? while scrolling a page, the top applet in Ubuntu almost always (since after several jumps the cursor ends up there)).

This is also timing dependent as it doesn't occur on all uses of the scroll wheel.

Finally, the cursor sometimes comes back to its original position (which presumably explains the timing dependency above).

If on Mac Host the Scrolling Speed is set to the minimum under System Preferences -> Mouse, the scrolling with central button in the guest became correct.

@gionn: Close, very close, but no cigar.

The bug occurs less often with the scrolling speed set to the minimal value, but it's still there when scrolling fast enough.

My regular mouse doesn't trigger it anymore, but the Apple magic mouse triggers it at will.

If there any setting that can activate some debug option to provide more detailed info, just tell me, this bug is really annoying even with gionn's workaround.

More observations: - the first scroll wheel event moves the cursor, - slightly moving the mouse brings the cursor back to its original position

(modulo the move)

So, some code, somewhere, may be sending a spurious event (motion cursor).

I suspect it's related to my ticket... http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5749

Fixed in the next minor update of VirtualBox.

Sorry guys, but it's still not fixed :-/

Well, it's fixed only when Mouse Integration is enabled, it's the same as before otherwise (motion events, mouse cursor jumping, focus changed, nightmare).

My problem is that I need to enable mouse integration (even when working full screen) because otherwise I run into compatibility problems with synergy (I'm pretty sure there is another old bug about that but I can't find it).

Grr, I need to *disable* mouse integration of course.

And I found the bug: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3880

So for me it's either no scroll wheel or no shared mouse/keyboard :-/

Please, fix at least one of these :)

Not sure if you understand correctly. You tried 3.1.2, right? This doesn't work for you in general or only when synergy is enabled?

I use 3.1.2 right now.

synergy is related *for my use case* but the behavior is the same whether I activate it or not.

If I enable Mouse Integration: - this bug (5672) is fixed, - I can't use synergy (3880),

If I disable Mouse Integration: - this bug (5672) is *not* fixed (same behavior as before), - I can use synergy.

If can help debugging or even fixing the problem just don't hesitate to ask, I use the same nick on IRC at #freenode so you can even ping there during european business hours.

More concretely, I encounter the problem on OSX host only, so my proposal for help can is in fact: how can I get a trace of the mouse events. Either the one received by vbox or the ones emitted by vbox and more probably both.

As an additional data point: when I use the Apple magic mouse, even with scrolling preference set to the minimal value, the cursor movements are bigger than with my other mouse. I.e. with the regular mouse the cursor jumps from say, a quarter of the screen (24" so 1920x1200) for a single scroll event (as much as I can judge with only a visual feedback) while with the magic mouse it seems to jump half of the screen.

Of course the jumps makes it impossible to use xev in the guest to further analyze the behavior.

Hence my question: cann you give me pointers on how to get some xev-like output from xbox ?

I am observing the following behavior with VirtualBox 3.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.2:

Regardless of guest platform (this happens on Xubuntu, Windows XP, and Windows 7):

-with mouse integration off, scrolling either with a mouse scroll wheel or two-finger scrolling on the trackpad is erratic and results in the pointer jumping vertically

-with mouse integration on, scrolling using two-finger scrolling on the trackpad works normally, but scrolling with a mouse scroll wheel is erratic - the pointer does not move vertically, but the scrolling is very sluggish

I have a similar issue when using a Linux Host and a Windows XP guest AFTER upgrading to the latest version of VirtualBox.

Scoll speed is erratic and sometimes uncontrollable - it jumps around as it thinks I am scrolling up and down quickly. I find if I move the trackpointer to the upper right or lower left, it scrolls correctly so it appears the axises are off somehow.

It used to work perfectly before the recent update.

Ever since 3.1.x the two-finger-scrolling from a MacBook? trackpad have been very slow and erratic. Up until 3.0.12 this was working great. I've been searching a lot regarding this matter and came up very short.

Host: OS X 10.6 Guest: Windows XP

Still present in 3.1.8 when mouse integration is disabled.

This bug has become critical with 3.2.0 since the 'Disable Mouse Integration' menu item is now greyed out.

Can you please consider re-opening this bug or should I file a new one ?

Note that there is http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6714 about the mouse integration but disabling mouse integration was only a *workaround*, the fact that it's not possible to use it in 3.2.0 just makes the problem worse (i.e. I had to revert to 3.1.8 :-( ).