LinuxMint8 main host-os, vmware player 3, vmware-tools Microsoft Windows Xp, mouse button, clicks, focus, fails, strange, wrong

[walterav]

VMware player 3 on host-OS LinuxMint8 main, is most of the time NOT usable as soon as VMware tools of guest-OS gets installed. Like Microsoft Windows XP or 7 as guest-OS.

Mouse focus or clicks don't get through to the guest-OS, or partly lower or higher part of the virtual-screen, although the virtualmachine knows its focused because it mentions to press ctrl-alt to release mouse, it doesn't work at all.

It seems that it is Virtualmachine related because some do respond normal and some doesn't.

links:
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/8/LinuxMint-8.iso ###host-os
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/player_3_0/ZGp0YmQlJSpiZGVkZA== ###virtual-machine-software
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=37059&p=212888&hilit=vmware+player+3#p232017 ###another user and me with the problem and symptoms.
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1468344#1468344 #problem posted on vmware community

Solution:
Pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE seems to make the Virtualmachine respond to mouse clicks again. Every time the Virtualmachine has been restarted you have to press CTRL-ALT-DELETE instead of the default CTRL-ALT.

[Husse (husse)]

Thank you
for taking the time to report a bug in Linux Mint
This is however not a Mint bug, possibly a VMware bug but most likely some misconfiguration