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Mouse position jumps to where it left the guest upon re-entry to the guest (SOLVED)

I have Mageia 4 (Linux) as a guest in Workstation 10. I installed VM tools in the guest.

Now here's the problem. Say I move the mouse off the Mageia VM screen, and go click on some window in the host, like check my email or something, then I mouse back over to Mageia. Now I am hovering over something I want to click on in Mageia, like Firefox. But when I click the mouse button, the cursor jumps back to where it left Mageia. So now I have to mouse back over to the Firefox icon and click it again.

Is this maybe a setting in VM tools? Or is this maybe some setting in Mageia? I can't really see any reason somebody would select this behavior, so I'm guessing VM tools is unable to reposition the mouse pointer to where it is now, for some reason, and Mageia just thinks it's where it last was.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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