gtk text widget ignores the mouse wheel

[Patrick Hetu]

In evince, gitg, gedit when the mouse is hidden using the wheel make the mouse flash
but do not scroll down or up.

ii unclutter 8-19
ii libgtk-3-0:i386 3.8.6-0ubuntu2

[Joel Bosveld (b0le)]

I am having the same issue, with gedit and evince not scrolling with mouse wheel, except it is when the keyboard focus in on another window (e.g. terminal) but mouse focus is on the first window (I am not sure what precisely is meant by mouse being hidden, so I cannot confirm this aspect). I do not have this issue with gnome-terminal or chromium.

I have just upgraded from 12.10 to 13.10 (via 13.04) and this is when the issue started occurring.

[John Stultz (jstultz)]

Very similar issue here. After upgrading to 13.10, Evince and gedit don't respond to mouse-wheel scrolling. Firefox/thunderbird/tomboy/other apps work fine w/ mouse-wheel scrolling. Makes it *very* difficult to use these apps.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[John Stultz (jstultz)]

Also: I'm using xfce / sloppy focus, so I don't see any mouse flashing nor does forgound window details change behavior.

[John Stultz (jstultz)]

The bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1171342 seemes to describe the issue fairly well for me, and the ppa fix from the comments solved it for me.