This has been a problem for a very long time, it also happens with the magic 
mouse.

It feels like there should be an option to disable interpreting side scrolling.

> On 21 Oct 2016, at 16:44, Yuriy Tymchuk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If I remember correctly on side scrolling the vm generates "ctrl + ←" and 
> "ctrl + →" keystroke events. Then some morph listens to them and switches 
> focus.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 21 Oct 2016, at 16:31, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2016-10-21 15:56 GMT+02:00 Yuriy Tymchuk <[email protected]>:
>> Ok,
>> 
>> there is a problem that when you use trackpad with pharo and you scroll 
>> something strange happens. And it was documented that when you scroll 
>> sideways it’s registered as ctrl + arrow click and it switches focus.
>> 
>> Now it seems that on Siera it became worse because now I cannot normally 
>> scroll at all.
>> 
>> Additionally this causes a lot of problems: i.e. when someone wanted to 
>> remove history plugin from nautilus many of people protested because when 
>> your navigation is fucked up during scrolling you can get back.
>> 
>> Now I started to think: why won’t we simply delete the code that registers 
>> these events. So I have a question, does anybody find this functionality 
>> useful? I find it super frustrating. And if everyone else does, maybe we can 
>> simply remove that.
>> 
>> Also while the time passes, does anybody have any idea on how to hack Pharo 
>> to ignore these events?
>> 
>> Which events?
>>  
>> Because I need to work and I can not…
>> 
>> Cheers.
>> Uko
>> 


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