Bug 269830 - Mouse scroll wheel has side effect on x11-wm/openbox
Summary: Mouse scroll wheel has side effect on x11-wm/openbox
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: amd64 Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: Roman Bogorodskiy
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Reported: 2023-02-26 05:02 UTC by Luc
Modified: 2023-11-28 17:36 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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linimon: maintainer-feedback? (novel)


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Description Luc 2023-02-26 05:02:18 UTC
This is hard to report but I am going to try.

First, I installed FreeBSD 13.1 and Openbox/LXDE.
Then I installed an external port of the Palemoon browser. By "external" I mean it is provided by a third-party.

When I scroll the mouse wheel in Palemoon, the browser navigates back and forth in the tab's history, as if I was clicking "Back" and "Forth."
Actually, it only happens when I scroll up and a bit too fast. First it will go "back" then it will go "forth."

I thought it could be a problem in the Palemoon port, but then I noticed it happening in the PCmanFM tabs. Only instead of going back and forth in navigation history, tabs would be selected (previous/next) when I scrolled up a bit too fast.

So I thought it was my Openbox configuration, entirely imported from a Linux installation (although that never happened in Linux). I spent quite some time editing my Openbox configuration in the attempt to fix the issue, but to no avail. Since I have other problems with Openbox in FreeBSD (all reported in the forum, one was denied by multiple users and two have had no reply so far), I just gave up.

Now here is the kicker.

Then I installed NomadBSD. I know you don't support NomadBSD, but the problem also happens there in Openbox, with a default configuration (I brought NOTHING from my Linux configuration to NomadBSD) and on Firefox.

A FreeBSD derivative, a nearly default Openbox configuration (I just changed themes) and a different browser.

The only common denominators are FreeBSD and Openbox.

I'm not sure anyone will be able to reproduce this, but it is reported.
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-11-28 04:24:41 UTC
^Triage: try to rescue this PR from obscurity.

I'm going to assume the actual report is against x11-wm/openbox.  It is certainly not against the infrastructure.
Comment 2 Roman Bogorodskiy freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-11-28 17:36:41 UTC
(In reply to Luc from comment #0)

That indeed sounds tricky to reproduce. I use openbox and firefox and never noticed problems like that.

Two questions:

1. Could you run xev(1) (x11/xev) and see if there's a difference in how it sees  a normal scroll and a "a bit too fast" scroll?

2. Is the problem reproducible if you run "standalone" openbox (without LXDE)?

BTW, could you also share links to the other 2 issues you mentioned?