xubuntu guest, mouse doesn't scroll

[wila]

Hi,

Hoping someone else has had this or a similar problem...

Here's what I did. The host is an ESX3.5 host, all up-to-date. I've included all my steps, just as a convenience (I write those type of things down anyways)

I created a new VM from a ubuntu jeos 8.04 iso.

Then I installed vmware-tools by selecting install vmware-tools from the tar.gz file.

mount /media/cdrom
cp /media/cdrom/*.tar.gz .
tar -xf VMware*.tar.gz
sudo apt-get install vmware-build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
cd ~/vmware-tools-distrib

When I tried to run the installer it complained about killall not being installed... so

sudo apt-get install psmisc
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Everything worked fine with that..

Then I decided to add a GUI so I would have my own browser appliance..

Instead of going for the standard gnome interface, i went for xubuntu

So I did a:

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

and let it roll...

that worked great.. and the next reboot I could use my desktop already..

After another apt-get update / upgrade roll I had to recompile my kernel again (and get the kernel-headers once more) but that's about all I had to do.

Things work very nice and I'm mostly happy with the install... there's one catch..

My mouse wheel scroll function doesn't work.. anyone here has a suggestion on how-to fix that one?

Thanks!

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Wil

[wila]

OK, got around this by using a vncserver.. it's a bit of a hack, but it works and best of all is that I can now connect directly to the VM from OS X.

sudo apt-get install vnc4server

then configure the bits and pieces in the shell script

~/.vnc/xstartup

and have it startup automatically (vncserver) and you are done.

The mouse scroll wheel then works..

If someone has the real answer on how-to get this working directly in the guest, I'd still be very interested.

--

Wil

[wila]

OK, here's the scroll wheel fix:

Open up /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the mouse section into:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "VMware Mouse"
        Driver          "vmmouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Protocol"      "IMPS/2"
        Option          "Buttons"       "5"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

I think that in particular the ZAxisMapping is the bit that does the magic, but it works, so I'm not touching it now

--

Wil

[seebimull]

Running Xubuntu 14.04 as guest under Win 7 host using VMWare Player 4.0.6 and I am also missing mouse wheel scrolling. My installation does not have the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, so how else to solve the missing mouse scroll?