Re: Lateral mouse movement stops scroll wheel

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 7:47 AM René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wednesday July 29 2020 20:55:59 Simon Walter wrote:
> >Yes. I like that. However, Russel Haley is the OP. So maybe reply to him
> >if you know what the solution might be.
>
> I have no solution, I think it's an intended behaviour. There are other
> input actions that do NOT stop wheel-induced scrolling and those often lead
> to undesired side-effects (such as text zoom when you press the Ctrl key to
> trigger a shortcut when inertial scrolling hasn't stopped yet).
>
> Maybe that the exact reported issue can be avoided by allowing horizontal
> scrolling (I expect not because a scroll wheel probably generates events
> for a single dimension only, but it's worth a try).
>

Hi, I'll try to catch all the previous emails here. The DE is Mate and no
other applications exhibit the issue. The commonality I can see so far is
Virtual Box/Mate. I haven't checked any other qt or KDE applications so
I'll do that asap.

Rene, just to be clear, the behaviour has only been seen in the VMs with a
physical mouse. I checked  KDevelop bare metal on a new Dell laptop and
both mouse scrolling and two finger scrolling worked correctly. To test
your theory that it's intended behaviour, I'll create a file with a really
long line and turn off word wrap to check if perhaps the document scrolls
horizontally. That would indicate an unintended signal from the mouse
driver perhaps.

>
> >
> >PS
> >
> >It's probably my fault because I bottom post and think that one top post
>
> It is, but because apparently you haven't configured your subscription to
> filter out replies that go to you AND to the list (I always "reply-all" to
> avoid excluding the list).
>
 Ha ha. The Lua mailing list performs an "auto reply-all" so when I'm
posting on other lists I wind up sending messages only to the poster. If
that happens, please just forward my message and publicly chastise me.

Cheers,
Russ

>
> R
>