{"id":135,"date":"2008-06-19T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T00:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=135"},"modified":"2008-10-15T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T06:32:07","slug":"mouse-scroll-wheel-in-ubuntu-in-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2008\/06\/mouse-scroll-wheel-in-ubuntu-in-vmware\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse Scroll Wheel in Ubuntu in VMware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running VMware Workstation 6.5 under Windows Vista.  I have Ubuntu 8.04 installed.  I found <a href=\"http:\/\/peterc.org\/2008\/64-how-to-enable-vertical-mouse-wheel-scrolling-in-ubuntu-hardy-on-vmware-fusion.html\">a tip<\/a> on how to enable the mouse scroll wheel, but I found that it switched my mouse over to Ubuntu control.  That is to say, my mouse acceleration changed, and I was no longer able to seamlessly move my mouse out of the VMware window.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it turns out to be critical that <tt>VMware Mouse<\/tt> be retained as the input device identifier in <tt>\/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf<\/tt>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>Section \"InputDevice\"\r\n\tIdentifier\t\"VMware Mouse\"\r\n\tDriver\t\t\"vmmouse\"\r\n\tOption\t\t\"CorePointer\"\r\n\tOption\t\t\"Device\"\t\"\/dev\/input\/mice\"\r\n\tOption\t\t\"Protocol\"\t\"ImPS\/2\"\r\n\tOption\t\t\"Buttons\"\t\"5\"\r\n\tOption\t\t\"ZAxisMapping\"\t\"4 5\"\r\nEndSection<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running VMware Workstation 6.5 under Windows Vista. I have Ubuntu 8.04 installed. I found a tip on how to enable the mouse scroll wheel, but I found that it switched my mouse over to Ubuntu control. That is to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2008\/06\/mouse-scroll-wheel-in-ubuntu-in-vmware\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}