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coolone
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 Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:21 am Post subject: [solved] VMware Mouse grab/ungrab Problem |
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I have been using vmware workstation 6.5 on gentoo almost 1 year.
today it suddenly doesn't work properly, mouse in VMware switches grab and ungrab itself, also sometimes it affects on my mouse & keyboard on X Environment
I reinstalled Vmware Tool, but still doesnt work .
I have tried "revdep-rebuild", but nothing wrong with library, and re-emerged vmware workstation and modules, but everything stays the same
I updated system yesterday and today, I cannot figure out what package affected on VMware, sys-fs/udev-149 ??
Could someone please help on this? thanks a lot in advance.
genlop --list --date 2 days ago
| Code: | | Wed Mar 10 09:36:07 2010 >>> x11-libs/gtk+-2.18.7 |
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coolone
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:32 am Post subject: |
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here is the solution could help.
The reason is I have upgraded GTK library
need to edit /etc/vmware/bootstrap
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="yes"
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export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="force"
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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coolone,
Just want to thank you for your post. I was experiencing this problem as well, but was at a complete loss as to how to describe it.
I guess there a many ways to cause the setting of "VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="yes"", for me, I added the setting to /etc/env.d/90vmware-workstation.
| Code: | zippy linux # cat /etc/env.d/90vmware-workstation
PATH=/opt/vmware/workstation/bin
ROOTPATH=/opt/vmware/workstation/bin
MANPATH=/opt/vmware/workstation/man
VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="yes"
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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The mouse grab/ungrab works properly in 640x480 resolution, or in to top left of most peoples vmware windows.
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coolone
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| Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:55 am Post subject: |
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Also have a look here @ https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291241
seems the problem caused due to gtkmm is missing the "accessibility" use flag
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | | The mouse grab/ungrab works properly in 640x480 resolution, or in to top left of most peoples vmware windows. |
That's exactly the symptom I have with vmware-server-2.0.2.203138. I tried coolone's and jfp's solution but neither worked.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks.
[SOLVED] I fixed this by editing the VMware GTK wrapper script as described by jules98 here. This seems to work with VMware Server 2.0.2. See coolone's better solution, below.[/SOLVED]
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coolone
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| cfgauss wrote: | | NeddySeagoon wrote: | | The mouse grab/ungrab works properly in 640x480 resolution, or in to top left of most peoples vmware windows. |
That's exactly the symptom I have with vmware-server-2.0.2.203138. I tried coolone's and jfp's solution but neither worked.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks.
[SOLVED] I fixed this by editing the VMware GTK wrapper script as described by jules98 here. This seems to work with VMware Server 2.0.2. [/SOLVED] |
I am using vmware workstation, but for server I recommend you to have a look this one: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8168791&postcount=6
Also another option, you could try to set "export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes" to your environment variable, hopefully this helps.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:50 am Post subject: |
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| coolone wrote: | | Also another option, you could try to set "export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes" to your environment variable, hopefully this helps. |
I added "export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force" to .bash_profile and the firefox plugin uses this to produce the correct behavior. This seems to be a clean solution as any updates to vmware won't affect this variable.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:33 am Post subject: |
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I'm running vmware server 2.0.2. On my system I couldn't start the console with VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes, I got the following error:
| Code: | | Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/home/<myuser>/.mozilla/firefox/<paranoid>.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/bin/../share/pixmaps/upgrade-hw.png' |
The solution was to uninstall the VMware remote console extension from the firefox add-ons, then reinstall it from the web interface. Now I can start with VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes, and the mouse problem goes away. |
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