Problem with mouse pointer offset (Ubuntu 9.10 guest, Win 7 32-bit host)

[dssifi]

I'm trying run Ubuntu 9.10 as guest for VMware Player 3.0 (Windows 7, 32bit host). Installation works well but is actualy unusable because the mouse pointer has some offset from where the actual mouse focus is. i.e. if you click an item where the mouse pointer is shown, you actually click on something different. Mouse pointer is show above and to the left of actual point where the focus is (i.e. where you 'click'). I can see items getting highlighted when moving the mouse somewhere close to them, but a click actually selects a different item. This did work well (same Ubuntu version) while VMWare Player was running on a Vista host. The strange behaviour started after having upgraded Vista to Win7 (I did reinstall VMware player after the upgrade and had to recreate the Ubuntu VM).

Any hints whats wrong ?

[continuum]

see http://sanbarrow.com/workstation-faq.html#p1




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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

[dssifi]

I did check the link. Unfortunately it did not help. The guest OS in the vmx-file is already set to 'ubuntu'.

[continuum · Accepted solution]

read http://communities.vmware.com/thread/244677?tstart=0




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VMX-parameters- VMware-liveCD - VM-Sickbay

[dssifi]

Thanks for the link. Resetting the Window 7 the 'Make it easier to read what's on your screen' value to 100% fixed the problem but 'Made it harder to read whats on the screen' :-(( The fonts are very small now because of my display's resolution. Anyhow, the problem w/ the mouse pointer offset was gone.

Once it worked fine, I did change the value back to 125% (which was the value I started with), and it still works fine (I did not reboot host or guest since then, i.e. don't know if this continues to work at 125%).

Hope VMWare will fix this strange behavior.