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When VMWare is in the foreground, fullscreen or not, the mouse will not move to the other computer and will disappear unless I alt-tab and put the program in the background. Using VMWare Workstation 16.1.0 build-17198959 and Multiplicity 3.55.
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Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant
If I understand your issue correctly, that would be expected as if VMWare has focus, the mouse is hooked to it.
Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager
The default setting is to auto grab the mouse. Even if I change it to force doing a ctrl-alt to release the behavior is the same once I hit the edge of the screen on the primary PC. The mouse cursor disappears and does not respond to clicks or become visible again until I alt-tab. With no VMs running everything is fine. With the VM in the background and a paused or off VM in the foreground everything is fine. Only when a VM is running and displayed does the problem happen. VM tools are up to date.
I have exactly the same problem but even a little worse than described above. After the first alt tab of the program, I completely lose the ability to work with the mouse. It's just not possible. Sometimes repeated alt tab helps to regain control, but it doesn't work every time. I do not know what this is due to, but when I decided to switch to vmware latest version, there was no problem and I could click the mouse. I fully described my situation to technical support, but none of the solutions they offered did not bring the desired result. I reinstalled the program twice, but the problem remained.
Same issue with me, do you fix it now? how did you resolve the problem? meanwhile, I am trying to explore different versions of vmware, I am checking this site, seems pretty good they also have free trials to test everything.
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