Mouse scroll wheel function busted

[Dan]

Wondering if anyone else is having issues with mouse wheel scrolling in F17 alpha, Beta, x86_64, i686, LiveCD or bare metal install?

[creataphysics]

Only in nautilus. I'd die if this bug was in geany.

Umm, I guess I'll explain what I experience. When I try to use the scroll wheel on the mouse I'm automatically scrolled to the bottom and then it doesn't work from there.

[Dan]

Only in nautilus. I'd die if this bug was in geany.

Umm, I guess I'll explain what I experience. When I try to use the scroll wheel on the mouse I'm automatically scrolled to the bottom and then it doesn't work from there.Pretty much the same symptoms here.

EDIT: Boog filed.

[DBelton]

I haven't found any issues with using the scroll wheel here. Seem to work ok in all of the applications I have tried it in.

I wonder if the issue may be in the driver itself instead of Gnome. Have you tried it using a different desktop environment?

[Dan]

From the liveCD? <..;)..>

[DBelton]

errr.. well.... From the liveCD, I guess you are pretty much stuck with Gnome. :Y

[bbfuller]

There is a KDE liveCD which it may be worth trying for comparison purposes. Who knows, you may even like it!!:D

I have no trouble with scroll using it here.

[pkands]

I have this problem also.
It's still there using nautilus under xfce but thunar doesn't have the problem.

[Dan]

As a matter of habit, I eschew the cashew. One wasted CD is enough. <..:D..>

Looks like a nautilus problem, then.

EDIT: And all system dialogs as well. But pcmanFM and thunar and Firefox etc. are unaffected.

[DBelton]

Then the fix is simple... Dump nautilus in the trash bin! :dance:

It's getting to where it's garbage anyway.. Just put it where it belongs :lol:

Seriously, though... It's just nautilus where you are seeing the problem?

[bbfuller]

Damn! I wish I had that way with words!

As a matter of habit, I eschew the cashew.

I suppose it mostly encapsulates my attitude to Gnome as well.

[Dan]

Then the fix is simple... Dump nautilus in the trash bin! :dance:

It's getting to where it's garbage anyway.. Just put it where it belongs :lol:

Seriously, though... It's just nautilus where you are seeing the problem?
See edits post #9

Damn! I wish I had that way with words!



I suppose it mostly encapsulates my attitude to Gnome as well.Meh. It's a curse.

[DBelton]

From a quick look around, it appears its a GTK3+ issue, so GTK3+ applications would be the only ones affected (which is pretty much apps written for Gnome 3 currently)

What happens if you try starting nautilus from the terminal, like so?


GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1 nautilus

[Dan]

... It works normally and (functions) as expected.

[DBelton]

I found it by digging around in the devel mailing list. Something about an older xserver with the newer GTK...

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2012-March/msg00017.html

[Dan]

Harrumph! Well ... I'll be dipped if I can figure out where to stab that patch in to make it all work down the old channel in Xorg.

[DBelton]

try creating a couple of files in /etc/profile.d (name doesn't matter, just the extension, must be .sh and .csh)

etc/profile.d/xxxxx.sh

GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1 && export GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS


/etc/profile.d/xxxxx.csh

setenv GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS 1


the files will probably need to be executable as well.

chmod +x /etc/profile.d/xxxxx.csh

chmod +x /etc/profile.d/xxxxx.sh

Edit:
This will set it upon each boot, and you will need to reboot for it to take effect

[Dan]

Ayup. That worked. I'll leave the naming convention I used up to your worst-nightmare type imagination. <..:p..>

[DBelton]

well, the names I thought of couldn't be posted here! :p

Glad it worked for ya :)

[AdamW]

were you forcibly using an older X server, or something? I haven't seen this bug at all, so I was assuming our X server was new enough not to be affected.

[Dan]

Nope. The same issue effects both x86_64 and i686 LiveCDs, and the bare metal fresh install from the i686 version. (Didn't bare-metal the 64 bit.)

And check out the NV30/nouveau testing screenshot. Lotsa fun there, too! <..:p..>

[DBelton]

From what I have found, the bug supposedly occurs if you use GTK+ 3.3.7 or newer with xorg before 1.12

Now from what I see, F17 has xorg 1.12.0-2 currently, and GTK+ 3 version 3.4.0-1

So, it really shouldn't be having this issue. I haven't noticed it on my system here, either.

Edit:

Dan, what versions do you have of those 2 packages?

yum info xorg-x11-server-Xorg gtk3 Should tell you the versions.

[Dan]

Whatever the install and yum updates decided I needed:

Installed Packages
Name : gtk3
Arch : i686
Version : 3.4.0
Release : 1.fc17
Size : 11 M
Repo : installed
From repo : koji-override-1
Summary : The GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), a library for creating GUIs for X
URL : http://www.gtk.org
License : LGPLv2+
Description : GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
: interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable
: for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete
: application suites.
:
: This package contains version 3 of GTK+.

Name : xorg-x11-server-Xorg
Arch : i686
Version : 1.12.0
Release : 2.fc17
Size : 3.3 M
Repo : installed
From repo : koji-override-0
Summary : Xorg X server
URL : http://www.x.org
License : MIT
Description : X.org X11 is an open source implementation of the X Window System.
: It provides the basic low level functionality which full fledged
: graphical user interfaces (GUIs) such as GNOME and KDE are
: designed upon.


Updates hasn't listed any replacements as of thirty seconds ago.

[Dan]

See posts 7, 8, 9. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1568431#post1568431

[DBelton]

I didn't try running the LiveCD or even install from it. I used the DVD, so I wonder if that made some difference.

I will probably be grabbing one of the LiveCD images in the next day or so and try in on one of my other machines, though. I'll check out the nautilus/mouse thing then.