Mouse button gets "stuck" down in VMWare guest OS
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I'm using 64-bit Fedora 13 on 64-bit VMWare Workstation 7.1 (on Windows 7 Pro) and I'm having an issue with the mouse button. Everything works just fine unless I click and drag off the guest OS window (which accidentally happens more often than you'd think). When I do this, the "button" gets stuck …
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Fix for: Mouse button gets "stuck" down in VMWare guest OS
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Ah, I figured it out but I'm going to leave this question up for posterity. The problem is that when you exit the VMWare window, the mouse "ungrabs" the selection. The guest OS is not informed of this and you get in the stuck condition. The solution…
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