Comments on: Fedora 9 on VMware, mouse tracking issue

By: Steve O

Steve O — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:54:52 +0000

Your the man, man! My god! You have no idea how crazy I was getting trying to figure this out!

I almost took my PC out to a field and beat on it Office Space style.

By: iwan

iwan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:27:08 +0000

It still don’t work with me.. i tried both (VMplayer with UbuntuVM under XP) still the mouse moves randomly to the upper left corner and isn’t where the curser is

By: John Robbet

John Robbet — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:36:07 +0000

Oh, Thanks, the 2nd solution works perfectly!

By: Fabrizio

Fabrizio — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:20:09 +0000

Thanks, Thanks, Thanks.
The only one solution for this issue.
The first one solved my problem.
Many many chatter on the web and only few solutions.

Thanks
Fabrizio

By: Tam Vu

Tam Vu — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:07:23 +0000

I had the mouse issue in Fedora 9 installed on VMware hosted by Vista. The left mouse click just doesn’t work. I used the 2nd step and it works perfectly now. Thanks!!!

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:30:10 +0000

This solved the problem, but I have a few questions:

1. How would anyone know this?
2. Why did it occur on this VM, which is a clone of another VM that doesn’t have the problem. In fact, the original VM doesn’t even have an xorg.conf (which is what X on Fedora 10 defaults to) (You can generate the xorg.conf with an X command)
3. How did the cloned VM end up with an xorg.conf with all the vmware stuff in it?
4. What caused it to start happening in this cloned VM, when I’ve been running that VM for several weeks without a problem until suddenly today? I have VMware tools installed in both.

By: Fedora 9 and Mac VMware Fusion 2.0.4 - Technology

Fedora 9 and Mac VMware Fusion 2.0.4 - Technology — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:03:05 +0000

[...] reason all my single clicks were being treated as double clicks, which drove me nuts. I found this posting which solved the problem, I use option 2 and edited the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and added the [...]

By: Gareth

Gareth — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:25:23 +0000

Thanks a lot!
I recently installed the 64bit version of fc9 on vmware player 2.0.4. All was fine until I ran the upgrade to install security updates etc. then for some reason the mouse clicks were all funky – sometimes it would double-click, and other times it wouldn’t click at all. Your solution #2 fixed all this :-)

By: joe

joe — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:03:12 +0000

Thanks a lot! Finally a simple Linux fix!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:29:07 +0000

AWESOME! I built an FC9 vm in ESXi to use as a template, but could not work out my mouse issues. I would click on a menu item and have to hold down the left mouse button for the menu to stay in view, and then release over the menu item that I wanted to select. On occasion, my mouse would just stop working.

I followed your step #2 above, but my /etc/X11/xorg.conf was named xorg.confBeforeVMwareToolsInstall. So I added the syntax in step #2 to this file, reneamed it to xorg.conf, rebooted, and voila…my mouse was back to normal.

Thanks so much for the help!