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xadow

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Registered: 2020-03-18

Posts: 1

Mouse's cursor has offset (GNOME)

Hi guys!

Yesterday I installed Arch Linux the first time, however I have multiple issues (system freezes), but my biggest one which prevents me from development is that my cursor has an offset, When I click to the upper half of a text-line (in VSCode or during browsing in Firefox) it selects the line above the desired one (and a bit left to the cursor position).

The OS runs as guest within VMware 15 Player, while the host is Windows 10. GPU: MSI RX570, CPU: Ryzen 7 1700X. I use GNOME as desktop.

I've checked previous posts that mentioned similar issues like this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=248540, however none of the answers worked for me. (I don't think it's Qt issue since VScode uses Electron). I'd appreciate your help or any suggestions (what type of logs should I check, etc.) to fix this. Thank you in advance!

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: Mouse's cursor has offset (GNOME)

You should probably look around for issues involving VMware Player. I'm guessing something about the hardware mouse cursor is going wrong. "Hardware mouse cursor" is a technique where the OS loads a picture of the mouse pointer into the graphics card hardware, and the graphics card then adds the cursor to the picture when it's sent to the monitor. Your "graphics hardware" inside your virtual machine is not real and is simulated by VMware Player. I'm guessing something there isn't working right, maybe the "hotspot" of the cursor image is interpreted wrong by VMware Player.

I just checked the ArchWiki, and I noticed there is an article about running Arch inside VMware, see here, maybe it contains something interesting for you:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … as_a_guest