so, obviously, something's missing in the VB Linux driver. So 'horizontal scrolling' (emulated through buttons 6 & 7, as vertical is emulated through buttons 4 & 5) DOES work on Linux (Mint Cinnamon, at least). Now when I use the xev utility, it correctly generates the buttons 6 & 7 while doing horizontal scrolling with it. So I just made the test of booting Linux Mint Cinnamon on my MacBook Pro Retina from a USB stick.Īs I suspected, I had to add the BlueTooth mouse which was correctly detected, connected and works perfectly.

Sorry, I meant USB mouses, not serial mouses, to differentiate them from BlueTooth ones. I hoped using the Apple driver would solve the problem but alas it doesn't.Īny idea on how to get this functionality working again on Linux guests ? FrancoisD Posts: 21 Joined: 1. I saw posts about the problem but all dating from 2016 where it seems it worked correctly up to a certain version of VB but I didn't found any solution to have it work again. It correctly sends buttons 5 & 6 for Up/Down but nothing for Left/Right, even when enabling it in the touchpad preferences. I tested the touchpad too with the 'twofingers' scrolling feature : same. So it seems that Linux sees the MacBookPro touchpad AND connected mouse as ImPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse (and they both work correctly).īut when I run the xev utility, I can see that scrolling vertically with the mouse correctly sends buttons 5 & 6, but scrolling horizontally doesn't send the expected buttons 6 & 7: is there anything missing in the guest mouse driver ? As I said, the host part of the driver seems to be able to handle it, so I strongly suspect something missing in the Linux driver. ⎜ ↳ ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse id=12 It I do an xinput -list, I get the following output : I used for the Linux Guest both 'PS2/Mouse' and 'USB touchpad' : they strictly both work identically, with or without the Apple Keyboard/Touchpad USB 3.0 extension driver. So I though that maybe on Linux, this feature should work but it doesn't.Īs it works with OS X guest, it seems the Host VB handles correctly the events but it seems there is something missing in the Linux mouse driver provided by VB. I installed as guest MacOS HighSierra so I had to install the VB Extension Pack and added the Apple Keyboard/Trackpad filter on USB 3.0 xHCI port to have mouse support working : it works perfectly, even the horizontal 'scrolling' ability the magic mouse provides. I'm using a MacBookProg Retina with a BlueTooth magic mouse connected to it.

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