Mouse selects portion of screen randomly

[thrubovc]

I have the following setup: Macbook with an external monitor, where the VM is displayed, alongside Mac OS on the laptop screen. My VMWare Fusion is running Windows 10.

During the day, I switch between the host OS and the guest OS often, and this has worked flawlessly under Mojave and VMWare 11.1.1.

However, after upgrading to Catalina, I also upgraded VMWare to 11.15.0, and under this setup, the following happens:

when moving the mouse pointer from the host to the guest OS, I click somewhere within Windows to activate the VMWare desktop and my mouse often times selects a large portion of the screen. If If I click within putty, it selects a large portion of text. If I click on the desktop, sometimes some icons are selected or even dragged around.

Has anyone got a similar problem?

[wila]

Hi,

You are not alone, see for example:

Windows jumping about when re-fousing on Fusion 11.5

Btw, not sure what kind of mouse you are using, but I also seem to remember reading that switching to another mouse resolved some of these problems.

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Wil

[thrubovc]

Thanks, I'll read through that thread too. I'm using Logitech MX Master. I prefer not to replace that mouse, but I suppose I might be able to try out a Lenovo usb cable mouse at work.