always additional "left-click-event" after left- or right-click

[Jan-Philip Gehrcke]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse

Hello!

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 guest OS + Vmware Tools on WinXP host. xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse helps me getting a seamless mouse between guest and host, but there is an annoying issue:

Whenever I press the left or the right mouse button, another "left-click-event" is sent instantly after release of the button.

In the terminal this results in:
normal leftclick -> marks a whole line
normal rightclick -> opens context menu and instantly executed first entry ("open terminal")
press left button, wait -> mark some characters, stay over them... release -> marked characters are in clipboard
press right button, wait -> context menu opens, move around and stay over an arbitrary entry... release -> this entry is executed

In general, it's clear that it's not easy to work with this strange behaviour :-)

Maybe it's even an additional "left-click-event" after each click-event, e.g. after clicking the middle mouse button, too. But I don't know how to test this.

The problem spontaneously appears as "single click taken as double click", and I found another person who experienced it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse/+bug/248521/comments/54
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse/+bug/248521/comments/58

But, in contrast to him, I had no success by modifying my xorg.conf. I even deleted all Input Devices but it did not help. To get the desired mouse behaviour back, I had to remove xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse. But this is not what I want :-)

I almost have no idea how do debug such input device related stuff. Please request logs/infos you need! I will deliver them asap.

Jan-Philip Gehrcke

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse 1:12.5.1-4ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Jan-Philip,

Does this issue still occur with Lucid? If it does, would you mind also attaching your /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

[Ivan Cruz (ivan-cruz)]

Hi Jan-Philip,

A fix was proposed for bug #545298 and I believe it apply to this one too:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse/+bug/545298/comments/11

May you check this please?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[Resetting to incomplete since we need a response from the original reporter on this].

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.