You are not logged in.

#1 2018-10-23 05:27:18

incantator
Member
Registered: 2018-10-19
Posts: 15

VMware XORG mouse extra buttons (back, forward) not working...

Hello, everyone. I've finally installed Arch Linux with XFCE on VMware Workstation and now I'm trying to fix some issues. Currently my mouse have a few extra buttons(back, forward and middle) and they are not working. I've disabled the additional mouse software that is on the Windows host but the symptom persists.

I've followed the Arch Wiki as following but nothing really changed:

[incantator@swyLinux ~]$ egrep "Name|Handlers" /proc/bus/input/devices | egrep -B1 'Handlers.*mouse'
N: Name="VMware VMware Virtual USB Mouse"
H: Handlers=event2 mouse0 
--
N: Name="VirtualPS/2 VMware VMMouse"
H: Handlers=event4 mouse1 
N: Name="VirtualPS/2 VMware VMMouse"
H: Handlers=event5 mouse2 

[incantator@swyLinux ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier      "Evdev Mouse"
  Driver          "evdev"
  Option          "Name" "VMware VMware Virtual USB Mouse"
  Option          "evBits"  "+1-2"
  Option          "keyBits" "~272-287"
  Option          "relBits" "~0-2 ~6 ~8"
  Option          "Pass"    "3"
  Option          "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier     "Default Layout"
  InputDevice    "Evdev Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

If I go to settings-mouse than indeed the current mouse is called "VMware VMware Virtual USB Mouse", but I'm not sure if what I've done is correct.

Please help me! Not being able to use the back and the forward buttons is way too hard for me!

Offline

#2 2019-01-02 03:12:04

bugsmanagement
Member
Registered: 2017-04-21
Posts: 201

Re: VMware XORG mouse extra buttons (back, forward) not working...

Hello,

Out of curiosity, does "VMware Virtual USB Mouse" support more than 3 buttons? You might want to look into VMware documentation about this, as I suspect this might be the culprit here?

Regards

Offline

Board footer

Powered by FluxBB