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John39
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laggy mouse wheel in certain applications VMW Workstation 15.5.7 Linux, Xubuntu 20.04 guest

Hello Community,

I'm running a VMW Workstation 15.5.7 for Linux with latest VMWare Tools installed and I noticed that on Ubuntu 18.04 host and Xubuntu 20.04 guest the mouse wheel in certain application is very laggy - it would scroll couple of lines then stop then if you keep scrolling it will go a bit further before stopping again. This affects especially Libre Office suite (Writer/Calc) and Atril Document Viewer (PDF).

This is not related to heavy documents - even simple ones with just text in it without any images (or in case of Calc completely empty spreadsheet) would be also affected.

Interestingly enough it does not affect Mozilla Thunderbird, thunar file manager or Double Commander file manager.

I searched the forum and it seems this was affecting people years ago and the problem pretty much disappeared and for them the wheel would not work at all.

Any thoughts on what to try/tweak?

Thank you very much in advance for any tips.

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John39
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Bump - this is actually really annoying. Anybody has any tips?

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