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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: SvOlli on June 19, 2009, 02:58:34 PM

Title: VMware mouse pointer integration
Post by: SvOlli on June 19, 2009, 02:58:34 PM

Hello,

my main TCE development platform is a VMware virtual machine, which is running fine. The only thing that gets annoying is the "missing" mouse pointer integration. When the generic mouse driver is replaced by a custom VMware one, no "mouse grabbing" is done anymore. It's the only thing I really miss working with TCL in a virtual machine. What would be the easiest way to get that done?

I could try to hack it in XFree 4.8.0's TinyX/Xvesa or try to compile the driver for a xorg.tce. I gave both ideas a quick shot, but none of them worked out at first try. I'm leaning towards trying the xorg path again this weekend. Anyone had any success on this topic yet?

Title: Re: VMware mouse pointer integration
Post by: danielibarnes on June 19, 2009, 06:12:30 PM

I don't know if it will help, but this link has some tips under the "xorg setup" section
http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/Packaging (http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/Packaging)

I will submit an extension for open-vm-tools for 1.x this weekend. I haven't made the jump to 2.0 yet, but I'll get to it.

Title: Re: VMware mouse pointer integration
Post by: SvOlli on June 20, 2009, 10:51:09 AM

Thanks, it was a good start.

The vmware mouse driver is not part of the toolbox, but of Xorg. I finally managed to it running, but it's not working correctly now. The mouse pointer is now at the right place, but it sends clicks all the time, even if I don't press the button.

It seems that my workaround for the "can't compile" problem was not 100%.  :-[