[Bug 1885025] Re: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling
Thanks Oliver and Niels, as we seem to have workarounds and no "code to fix" I'll set the bug state to invalid as we can't change/backport anything to resolve. I'm glad that at least everything seems to make sense and there is a config to avoid that. ** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885025 Title: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1885025/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1885025] Re: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling
I can confirm this does seem to 'fix' the issue. At first the seamless mouse gets in some "hybrid state" where I can move the mouse out of the window, but the Ubuntu screen still shows it stuck at the corner. When I then resize the screen it snaps back to normal behaviour. I suppose that supports the soft cursor theory. Importantly VMware Player does *not* expose this setting as a UI option (unless I'm completely blind), so I had to edit the .vmx file and manually add: mks.gamingMouse.policy = "absolute" (from what I read this is the .vmx equivalent of the "never" policy) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885025 Title: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1885025/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1885025] Re: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling
This is the reply I got from our MKS team: -- I'll bet the guest driver is switching to a software cursor at that point, which trips up our "Gaming Mouse" heuristic. They should be able to change the UI setting for Gaming Mouse from "Automatic" to "Never" to fix that. Assuming that's the issue, there's not a whole lot we can do about it from our side in the vmx, without disabling the heuristic by default which will break other apps. It's possible the Linux driver could look into why it's switching to a software cursor and possibly fix that if it's in our driver and not earlier in the guest stack. -- I filed an internal bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885025 Title: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1885025/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1885025] Re: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling
Thanks Oliver, I didn't see one but do you have an issue on [1] or anything else to track for this? [1]: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885025 Title: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1885025/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1885025] Re: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling
No, I haven't seen or heard about this. I forwarded to the team that works on this. Oliver From: boun...@canonical.com on behalf of Christian Ehrhardt <1885...@bugs.launchpad.net> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 4:37 AM To: Oliver Kurth Subject: [Bug 1885025] Re: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling Thanks Niels. @Oliver - does this behavior mean anything to you or rings a bell? -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.launchpad.net%2Fbugs%2F1885025data=02%7C01%7Cokurth%40vmware.com%7C46c9bff5c0cd468a4c8e08d819c67560%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C1%7C637287687452392211sdata=yX9Jk%2Bnuor3aK0A4Zz6MDbJwEdPcU9kXR7QaUB9Iou0%3Dreserved=0 Title: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling Status in open-vm-tools package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: As previously indicated in https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.launchpad.net%2Fubuntu%2F%2Bsource%2Fmutter%2F%2Bbug%2F1884754data=02%7C01%7Cokurth%40vmware.com%7C46c9bff5c0cd468a4c8e08d819c67560%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C1%7C637287687452392211sdata=E8YdDyENL3LcarJaIBgAhm9k%2F5O54HDJUd9boqrx6BA%3Dreserved=0 When Ubuntu 20.04 is installed in VMware Player 15.5.6, and you change the display scaling, the mouse becomes "locked" to the window until the next reboot, as if open-vm-tools is no longer running or detected. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: open-vm-tools 2:11.0.5-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-37.41-generic 5.4.41 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-37-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Jun 24 15:14:51 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-06-22 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR= LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: open-vm-tools UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.launchpad.net%2Fubuntu%2F%2Bsource%2Fopen-vm-tools%2F%2Bbug%2F1885025%2F%2Bsubscriptionsdata=02%7C01%7Cokurth%40vmware.com%7C46c9bff5c0cd468a4c8e08d819c67560%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C1%7C637287687452392211sdata=cQs%2FfREQwDips4GRE7SbA0Q6bBACRvREQs30Hw2QzUY%3Dreserved=0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885025 Title: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1885025/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1885025] Re: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling
Thanks Niels. @Oliver - does this behavior mean anything to you or rings a bell? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885025 Title: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1885025/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1885025] Re: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling
One can easily reproduce this by running: xrandr --output Virtual1 --scale 0.8x0.8 This will kill the seamless mouse directly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885025 Title: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1885025/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
