Friday, July 11, 2008

Enable mouse wheel in Ubuntu VMWare guest

If you are using guest Ubuntu under VMware, mouse scroll does not work.
To fix this, open terminal and type the following:
$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Then find "InputDevice" section with Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Change Option "Protocol" "ps/2"
to
Option Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Last restart X using Ctrl + Alt + Backspace
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