Bug 1386602

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.

I can confirm this. Mouse scrolling works in a VM, touchpad or trackpoint scrolling doesn't.

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?).

Could be an issue in virt-viewer then, or in gtk+.

(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!)

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+.

(but it could very well be remote-viewer/spice-gtk/gtk-vnc event handling which is missing something to handle your trackpad)

*** Bug 1229443 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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.

(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.

> That's bug 1285770, unrelated to this.

Got it. Thanks for pointing out to correct issue.

Still an issue with F25 host and F26 Alpha guest.

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Still happens on F26

Also still a problem in 27.

Updating to F27 as confirmed an issue there (bit me just now on some Windows testing).

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). »

Triaging to gtk3

Can this be related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456974 ?

This works now in F28.  I didn't notice when exactly it started working.

Fixed by https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/commit/2212f05145c5f1d5734f0cb7d3945dc58c1d5c8c which is in spice-gtk 0.35

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