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Mouse ungrab / release problems - VMware Player 5, Windows 8 host, Debian Wheezy guest

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VMware Player 5, Windows 8 host, Debian Wheezy guest - with VMware Tools installed.

 

I have some strange behaviour that is quite irritating.

 

The mouse is automatically grabbed when I mouse over the guest - I want this.

 

When leaving the guest window - the mouse is kind of stuck, it leaves the window area a few hundred pixels, flashes and is relocated back into the guest window, this repeats rapidly until after about 10 seconds the mouse is released. Alt-ctrl does release as expected.

 

Any ideas how to fix this?

 

(or how to further diagnose this?)

 

 

More details on the installation.

 

New machine created in VMware Player 5, fresh 64bit Debian Wheezy install with xfce4. VMware tools from VMware. Tried apt-get install open-vm-tools same behaviour.

 

A 32bit Debian Wheezy guest, copied from Windows 7 host works correctly (releases the mouse as expected) on the new setup.

 

Thanks for any clues!


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