No right click in Unity mode

[murfle]

Just installed beta 4. Tried out the unity mode, and although it works fine in single window mode, and full screen mode, I can't right click anything in Unity mode.

I haven't read through much of the b4 documents yet, as I'm short on time, but I'd like to throw this out there to see if its a known issue or not.

Thanks

[mhuyck]

For those having trouble with right click... another topic here mentions a known problem with modifier keys occasionally getting stuck. If you find you can't right click, try pressing and releasing each key your keyboard has got one at a time and see if the problem goes away.

[jennyberglund]

I believe we know what's going on now. This is a problem with Boot Camp VMs created with beta 3 only. In those VMs, a line like this is present in the configuration file:

mouse.vusb.enable = "TRUE"

This line is the culprit. There are two solutions to this problem:

1. Do what junkshow did and delete the virtual machine. It is located in ~/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp. You can safely delete that whole directory (there will be no data loss; it just contains meta data). Now, when you double-click on the Boot Camp entry in the Virtual Machine Library (in beta 4), a new VM will be created which doesn't have the problem, and right-clicking should work just fine in unity.

2. If you want to, you can simply remove the offending line from the .vmx file. That should do the trick to.

Please let us know if you're seeing this issue after trying one of these solutions, or if you're having the problem on VMs that are not beta 3 boot camp VMs. In that case we'll have to investigate more.

-Jenny

[nalenb]

Do I win a prize for correctly narrowing it down to boot camp mouse issues?

[pipebender]

Thanks for the fix. Right click works fine now.

[murfle]

Thanks! I ended up removing the VM because I couldn't find a vmx file. I did find the vmwarevm file, but it wouldn't open in TextEdit.

As I was typing this, I thought I could have done it in vi, but discovered on the command line that the vmwarevm file is actually a directory, and that Finder doesn't recognize it as one.

At least now I know where to edit the vmx file for next time.

Thanks! I'll be getting a lot more use out of unity mode now 😃

[Andreas_Masur]

Thanks! I ended up removing the VM because I

couldn't find a vmx file. I did find the vmwarevm

file, but it wouldn't open in TextEdit.

To open the 'vmwarevm' package you can CTRL-click and select "Show package contents"...

Ciao, Andreas

[ColinG]

I have version 4.1, and I still cannot right click. I have tried everything recommended previously except reinstalling (because that sounded like only something that was necessary for people who upgraded from 3). Any other ideas?

[vinayv]

Find the Boot Camp.vmwarevm that's in the aforementioned directory. Right-click on it, select "Show Package Contents" and find the .vmx file in there. Could you paste the contents of that file here? It contains no personal information. It's just the vm config file.

[mlevin2]

5 years late to the game 😉

I can confirm that unity and synergy do not play nicely together. When synergy is running, if you're in unity mode, your mouse pointer disappears and you can't click on anything. Double-clicking sometimes gets it to reappear, but it gets into a funny state where it thinks the mouse is being held down.