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Thinkpad trackpoint scrolling with VMWare

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Mar 15, 20262883 views
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ThinkPads have a middle mouse button for scrolling, sort of like a mousewheel. The trouble is, when I'm using VMWare, the scroll messages don't seem to get through to the guest operating system and windows inside there don't scroll. It appears that the scroll message goes to the VMWare window itsel…

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Fix for: Thinkpad trackpoint scrolling with VMWare

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I know this probably isn't what you want to hear, but from what I can tell there is no fix for this, just a lot of upset Thinkpad & VMWare users: VMWare Communities VMWare Communities 2 I think the problem is that the VM Ware window is capturing the…

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