Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 08:24:44 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Non-responsive mouse in FreeBSD virtual machine Message-ID: <20200412082444.29be302d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <DB8PR06MB6442A9312E22255CE631BE6AF6DC0@DB8PR06MB6442.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> References: <DB8PR06MB6442A9312E22255CE631BE6AF6DC0@DB8PR06MB6442.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
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On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 10:05:51 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > I have a strange situation here. I am running a FreeBSD 12.1 amd64 > virtual machine in VirtualBox. > > Everything works fine in the vm, except that the mouse simply won't > respond to click/right-click in any desktop (gnome3/kde5/mate/xfce). Those desktops have in common... the use of HAL and DBus. Do you have those enabled in /etc/rc.conf? > So I can't open up the apps menu, change desktop background, bring up a > terminal, anything else. There are usually shortcuts for that, like Alt+PF1, or the "Windows" advertising key found on many keyboards. Sometimes a terminal can be launched with Ctrl+Alt+T. But all this of course depends on the desktop and its initial configuration, and it doesn't really solve the problem. :-) > The mouse just moves as expected and even > offers tooltips, but nothing happens with click/right-click. > > Surprisingly, the mouse works fine in the default X window system twm. For verification, install the X event viewer (xev) and compare the results running under twm and in a desktop environment. Do the events of mouse movement mouse click appear as expected? > How can I possibly get the mouse to work normally in a desktop environment ? The correct question would include the adverb "fully" (working), because movement works, but clicks don't work. Maybe a VirtualBox setting is also involved here. Have you checked anything that could be related, like window focus and "transfer of control"? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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