How to disable horizontal scrolling within virtualbox on Ubuntu guest, Windows 7 host?

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Published on 2010-03-28T14:49:53Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 14:53 UTC
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This post is a duplicate from superuser.com, but since I had no answers, I started to doubt it was a user question and maybe more of a programming question (because of the configuration files), so here it is:

I am using Windows 7 as Host, Ubuntu Karmic as guest OS with guest tools installed and I get an annoying glitch when switching from host to the guest machine: vertical scrolling switches to horizontal! (using the mouse wheel). Since I don't really care about horizontal scrolling, how can I disable this?

I have checked the web and the only thing I found was to play in the xorg.conf file and adding in the section "InputDevice"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

which would enable vertical scrolling only. The thing is, I don't have that section in my config file so I guessed that I would need to add

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "VBoxMouse"
    Driver "vboxmouse"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

But that does not seem to work after restarting xserver.

Any workaround for this?

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