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freifunk_connewitz
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 Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject: vmware mouse problem [SOLVED] |
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hi there,
I'm posting this after an hour of desperate search in the forums and the web. vmware player on linux has a problem with the mouse pointer: if I click somewhere in the windows guest, the cursor jumps somewhere else, you are never able to click any button. IIRC the bug went back to a qt or gtk problem. there was a fix for this by changing the default gui of vmware player to something like "original" or "natural", cant quite remember...
unfortunately there was an update to vmware and I only flew over the config file changes and accepted to use the new one, so the fix is gone  ( - can anybody help me by pointing me to the fix for this problem again? I really was digging through the web and did not find anything related, neither any syntax documentation of the vmware config files.
thank you
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virtguru
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| Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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you have actual vmware tools installed for your guest ? how about x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse ? I believe the fix you were looking for was in /etc/profile to clean up the gtk installation .
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes |
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freifunk_connewitz
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| Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| tr0ll wrote: | | you have actual vmware tools installed for your guest ? |
no, there's no ebuild and to me it didnt seem worth all the work of the iso-extract-procedure.
| Quote: | | how about x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse ? |
read that, havent tried it since until recently I had no xorg.conf anymore (you know, the hal hell)
| Quote: | I believe the fix you were looking for was in /etc/profile to clean up the gtk installation .
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes |
Yes! that was it! thank you! |
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njcwotx
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I installed VMware Tools on an Gentoo Guest in an ESXi 5.1 host, kernel 3.10.17, xorg-11 78.4-r2, KDE 4.11.2.
Installed vmmouse drivers and still had a flaky mouse
examined Xorg.conf and found that 'hotplug' was enabled and it ignored vmmouse lines in xorg.conf.
Added this to xorg.conf and issue was resolved:
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Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection
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I already had the device driver lines in xorg, but I would think you should have the correct drivers at the ready as well.
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