Yes.  That config file looks WAY too short.  There are no modelines at all.  Search the forum for a (about 2 page long) xorg.conf file KevinG has posted numerous times.

Some versions of X seem to require that the vmware-toolbox applet be running for the mouse grab/ungrab and clipboard sharing to work.

When you are logged in and have an X session running, open a new terminal and type 'vmware-toolbox &'.  This will launch the toolbox in a separate process, so that you can close the terminal.  Yes, you can add this command to your X startup (how will depend on your distro, version of X, and window manager).

You can minimize the window, but you can't close it or the applet is unloaded.

This is normal?

Normal for what?  If you want the toolbox process to be running, it must be running.  On Windows guests, you will see an icon for the toolbox process running in the system tray of the guest.  On Linux guests, you can minimize/iconify the toolbox... but I don't think too many (if any) Linux window managers understand the concept of the system tray.

My mouse moves freely between the host(Windows XP) and (CentOS 5)guest OS and NO vmware-toolbox is running.

The real solution is to use a correctly modified xorg.conf file and the correct mouse driver loaded.

It's the mouse driver that handles the grab & ungrab, the vmware-toolbox process handles the copy / paste

Re: VMware Tools problem - Screen resolution only 800x600 - CentOS 5

\# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"

     Identifier     "single head configuration"

     Screen         "Screen0"

     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

     InputDevice    "XWorkAround"

        InputDevice    "Mouse[0]" "CorePointer"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

     Identifier  "Keyboard0"

     Driver      "kbd"

     Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"

     Option         "XkbLayout" "us"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

     Identifier  "Mouse[0]"

        Driver "vmmouse"

        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

        Option "Name" "VMware Point Device"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

     Identifier  "XWorkAround"

     Driver      "void"

EndSection

Section "Monitor"

     Identifier   "vmware"

     VendorName   "VMware, Inc"

1. Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:

     HorizSync    1.0 - 10000.0

     VertRefresh  1.0 - 10000.0

EndSection

Section "Device"

     Identifier  "VMware SVGA"

     Driver      "vmware"

EndSection

Section "Screen"

1. Don't specify DefaultColorDepth unless you know what you're

1. doing. It will override the driver's preferences which can

1. cause the X server not to run if the host doesn't support the

1. depth.

     Identifier "Screen0"

     Device     "VMware SVGA"

     Monitor    "vmware"

     DefaultDepth     24

     SubSection "Display"

1. VGA mode: better left untouched

          Viewport   0 0

          Depth     4

          Modes    "640x480"

     EndSubSection

     SubSection "Display"

          Viewport   0 0

          Depth     8

          Modes    "1024x768"

     EndSubSection

     SubSection "Display"

          Viewport   0 0

          Depth     15

          Modes    "1024x768"

     EndSubSection

     SubSection "Display"

          Viewport   0 0

          Depth     16

          Modes    "1024x768"

     EndSubSection

     SubSection "Display"

          Viewport   0 0

          Depth     24

          Modes    "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x400" "640x350"

     EndSubSection

EndSection

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