Mouse Support in Linux Guest OS

[nhand42]

The mouse support in a Windows Guest OS is excellent; the cursor isn't captured but can drift into and out of the window naturally. I'd like the same behaviour inside a Linux Guest OS.

 

[constant]

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Apparently linux tools are coming. Maybe next minor release, maybe next major relaease.
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[Andrew @ Parallels]

Constant is correct - it is under development now.

 

[nhand42]

Constant is correct - it is under development now.

Woohoo! That's great news.

 

[ohporter]

Great news Andrew. My primary guest OS is Ubuntu LInux. The three things that are an issue for me are:

1) Lack of a built-in way to emulate a middle mouse click on my MacBook Pro touchpad. I suppose using SideTrack (another $15 shareware tool just for a middle mouse click? :0) could do it and pass through the button 3 event.

2) Lack of accelerated Xorg support

3) Lack of cut and paste between the host and guest OS "clipboard" or cut and paste buffers.

I suppose 2 and 3 might be a part of parallel tools for linux. Is that the case?

What about #1, any plans for that? One thing I did notice is that the built-in right click emulation on parallels/mac is deprecated by the OS X 10.4.7 two-finger-tap-generates-right-click option.

Also, is parallels linux support something that will be released at the next major release later this year or will some of this be available in a sooner minor release?

Thanks,
Matt

 

[Stubb]

Has anyone been able to get the middle button of a 3-button mouse to work? I have a wireless Apple Mighty Mouse and tried setting the middle button to "Button 3" in the mouse portion of the OS X control panel and set "emulate3button" to false in XF86Config-4.

 

[David Corrales]

I -really- want to have linux tools that give good redraw speed and non-laggy mouse.

 

[scsjason]

So, any news on when these tools are going to make an appearance for Linux?
Its been quite a while since the last post.

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jason