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Cesco201110141
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Problems with mouse pointer offset on a dual-monitor setup

Hi. I have a problem with VMWare Fusion 3.1.2

I'm using a dual monitor configuration on VMWare in full-screen mode, so I can work with Windows on both the screens I have (one is the built-in monitor of my MacBook Pro, the other is a small Samsung monitor connected to the Mac with a DVI cable)

Mainly my problem is that... when I click an object, that's not being selected. Instead, something else on a lower position gets selected. I think that somehow VMWare displays the mouse pointer at a certain position, but Windows believes that the pointer is in a different position.

On the main screen I can work and do anything and the mouse pointer has no problems, *but* when I move the mouse pointer on the second screen... how can I say that? I click on a button but it isn't selected, and instead a button or any other kind of object that resides 30-60 pixels below is being selected. I'm sorry for this confused explanation, but I have taken a screenshot to explain this issue.

This is not happening immediately: when I launch VMWare and I use Windows 7 initially both the main and the second screen works perfectly. Then after some minutes I have this problem. To fix it I have to change VMWare options and switch to single-screen and then back to dual-screen, and then it works again.

If this could help you, I already had a similar issue with VMWare 3.0: in that case both the main and the second screen were giving me problems.

I usually work with Visual Studio 2010 (Italian edition), but I noticed that this issue appears also with any other application that is displayed on the second screen.

I'm using VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 (332101) on a MacBook Pro with 8Gb of RAM and Mac OS X 10.6.6 installed (but I had the very same issues also on Mac OS X 10.6.5 and probably 10.6.4). The guest machine is running Windows 7 Professional (64-Bit version) with 3Gb of RAM.

The graphic card installed on my MacBook Pro is a NVidia GeForce GT 330M

The copy of VMWare Tools I have installed in the virtual machine is version 8.4.5 Build-332101

Thank you

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This can happen if you have a third party mouse driver installed (or if you imported this virtual machine from another virtualization platform and did not uninstall their equivalent of Tools). Disabling the other driver should fix things.

Cesco201110141
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I'm using a wireless Apple Mighty Mouse and I have never installed any third party mouse driver on Windows 7. The Operating System was installed by scratch on VMWare, I haven't imported it from any other machine or Parallels.

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rnbergren
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Having this same issue. I have uninstalled and reinstalled VMTools, I have uninstalled and installed VMTools without the mouse.  That seems to work the best.  I seem to have on the second monitor a doubling up of the mouse on Google Chrome when I hover over a link.  Ideas?

;mouse issue.png notice the hand which is where the mouse really is at and the pointer where the mouse is not located. 

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