Details
This is a scenario that can impact certain, but not all scroll wheel mice.
New behaviour in Windows 10 allows scroll wheel events to non-focal windows. By default, we drop the hook scroll wheel messages on Windows 10.Impacted mice include but are not limited to Microsoft wireless, Sica/Asus Gaming mouse – wired, HP – wired, Logitech M705 – wireless, Logitech g700sThe purpose of this KB is to provide a configuration change to enable the ability to utilize the scroll wheel during a virtual desktop session. The option was added to allow for these conditions with specific scroll wheel mice
Solution
The following configuration change is applicable for 5.5 Horizon Client and above and for Horizon Client 8.1 and above. It is not available with the Horizon 8.0 Client. This is a setting change on the Horizon Client Side. If you have the following file present on your system - %AppData%\Roaming\VMware\config.ini , you can add viewClient.dropScrollWheel=FALSE as a parameter here.If the file is not present, it can be created.
Go to %appdata%\vmwareCreate a file named config.iniAdd one line to it:viewClient.dropScrollWheel=FALSE
Save and close and restart the Horizon Client.
