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Bug 1386602 - Can't scroll in virt-viewer, Gnome Boxes, virt-manager under Wayland using touchpad/trackpoint
Summary: Can't scroll in virt-viewer, Gnome Boxes, virt-manager under Wayland using to...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gtk3
Version: 27
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common...
: 1229443 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: WaylandRelated
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-19 09:38 UTC by Stefan Kirrmann
Modified: 2019-06-25 14:29 UTC (History)
35 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-08-09 08:14:05 UTC
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Description Stefan Kirrmann 2016-10-19 09:38:44 UTC
Description of problem:

I cannot scroll in virt-viewer, remote-viewer, Gnome Boxes or virt-manager, the mouse events are not passed through, except of this issue the mouse works fine. This problem only exists under Wayland. If I am using Xorg, everything works like it should. So I guess it has to be the implementation that all of this applications do use.

This bug does apply to Fedora 24, too.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-viewer-4.0-2.fc25.x86_64
virt-manager-1.4.0-3.fc25.noarch
gnome-boxes-3.22.1-1.fc25.x86_64


Additional info:
I am using a T540p with a multi touch scroll. The VM Guest System is Windows and has Spice Geust Tools installed.

Comment 1 Peter Simonyi 2016-11-25 04:00:53 UTC
Only touchpad scrolling is affected.  Scrolling with a mouse is passed through as expected.

If the host is Gnome Shell on Wayland, scrolling just doesn't get passed through.

Under Weston, it's really weird: scrolling in either direction gets translated into scrolling in only one direction (down with "Natural Scrolling" off).

The guest VM doesn't seem to matter; I've tried F24 and 25, XOrg and Wayland.

Comment 2 Kamil Páral 2016-11-25 09:10:51 UTC
I can confirm this. Mouse scrolling works in a VM, touchpad or trackpoint scrolling doesn't.

Comment 3 Kamil Páral 2016-11-25 09:31:23 UTC
This happens even in VMs with VNC (not spice). Also, it happens with remote-viewer connecting to a vnc server. However, when I connect to the same server with vncviewer, I can scroll just fine. So this is not exactly about spice, but about some library that all the tools use for input processing. Which can be spice-related, I don't know (is there some compatibility mode with vnc in that library?).

Comment 4 Christophe Fergeau 2016-11-25 09:41:29 UTC
Could be an issue in virt-viewer then, or in gtk+.

Comment 5 Peter Simonyi 2016-11-25 09:45:12 UTC
(In reply to Kamil Páral from comment #3)
> However, when I connect to the
> same server with vncviewer, I can scroll just fine.

vncviewer in tigervnc isn't Wayland native; all the others are.

Running e.g. gnome-boxes on XWayland with GDK_BACKEND=x11 does make trackpad scrolling work.  (although this is a terrible workaround because then the keyboard doesn't work!)

Comment 6 Christophe Fergeau 2016-11-25 09:51:48 UTC
I've noticed this "keyboard does not work" issue with GDK_BACKEND=x11 too, but did not get a chance to investigate yet.
Tentatively moving to gtk+.

Comment 7 Christophe Fergeau 2016-11-25 09:52:49 UTC
(but it could very well be remote-viewer/spice-gtk/gtk-vnc event handling which is missing something to handle your trackpad)

Comment 8 Cole Robinson 2016-12-12 20:36:54 UTC
*** Bug 1229443 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 fedora-mate-testing 2017-01-08 22:51:18 UTC
Experiencing the same issue on Fedora 25 with Wayland, with XOrg it does work.

Also would like to add that with Wayland I can't make Super key pass through to VMs, both in Boxes and virt-manager spice client. In virt-manager guest-to-host (but no the other way around) clipboard sharing doesn't work as well as Ctrl+W, which closes the window.

Comment 10 Kamil Páral 2017-01-09 13:12:01 UTC
(In reply to fedora-mate-testing from comment #9)
> Also would like to add that with Wayland I can't make Super key pass through
> to VMs, both in Boxes and virt-manager spice client.

That's bug 1285770, unrelated to this.

Comment 11 fedora-mate-testing 2017-01-09 13:28:03 UTC
> That's bug 1285770, unrelated to this.

Got it. Thanks for pointing out to correct issue.

Comment 12 Kamil Páral 2017-04-11 10:46:18 UTC
Still an issue with F25 host and F26 Alpha guest.

Comment 13 E.J. Bevenour 2017-10-18 23:21:36 UTC
This is an issue on Ubuntu 17.10 Beta 1.

Comment 14 Fedora End Of Life 2017-11-16 18:53:22 UTC
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Comment 15 Dimitris 2017-11-16 19:27:34 UTC
Still happens on F26

Comment 16 Peter Simonyi 2017-11-18 02:18:36 UTC
Also still a problem in 27.

Comment 17 James Hogarth 2017-12-12 15:42:51 UTC
Updating to F27 as confirmed an issue there (bit me just now on some Windows testing).

Comment 18 Christophe Fergeau 2017-12-14 16:11:21 UTC
Most likely related to https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2017-November/040603.html

« One note here, when running a wayland spice-gtk/remote-viewer, the only
scroll events I'm getting are GDK_SCROLL_SMOOTH events, I'm not getting
any scroll event until I add GDK_SMOOTH_SCROLL_MASK to the events
spice-gtk listens to (which results in the mouse wheel not being
functional with a wayland client). »

Comment 19 Rex Dieter 2018-02-14 19:25:12 UTC
Triaging to gtk3

Comment 20 Alexander Mikhaylenko 2018-03-28 17:17:54 UTC
Can this be related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456974 ?

Comment 21 Peter Simonyi 2018-08-09 03:54:09 UTC
This works now in F28.  I didn't notice when exactly it started working.

Comment 22 Christophe Fergeau 2018-08-09 08:14:05 UTC
Fixed by https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/commit/2212f05145c5f1d5734f0cb7d3945dc58c1d5c8c which is in spice-gtk 0.35

Comment 23 Konstantin N 2019-06-25 14:29:18 UTC
have problem on Fedora 30 with gnome-boxes:

spice-glib.x86_64            0.37-1.fc30       @updates
spice-gtk3.x86_64            0.37-1.fc30       @updates
spice-server.x86_64          0.14.2-1.fc30     @updates
spice-vdagent.x86_64         0.19.0-1.fc30     @updates
gnome-boxes.x86_64           3.32.1-2.fc30     @updates

Wayland on host

## Guest:

Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 9.9 (stretch)
Release:	9.9
Codename:	stretch

$ loginctl
   SESSION        UID USER             SEAT             TTY             
        c1        116 Debian-gdm       seat0            /dev/tty1       
         3       1000 keeper           seat0            /dev/tty2       

2 sessions listed.

keeper@keeper-hs03:~/bin$ loginctl show-session 3 -p Type
Type=x11

ii  libspice-client-glib-2.0-8:amd64      0.33-3.3+deb9u1
ii  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5:amd64       0.33-3.3+deb9u1
ii  spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper      0.33-3.3+deb9u1
ii  spice-vdagent                         0.17.0-1       
ii  spice-webdavd                         2.1-1


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