How to fix mouse offset bug in VMWare Workstation under Windows 8.1 host

Posted on 2016-02-12

There’s a bug in mouse behavior that happened to me in VMWare Workstation under Windows 8.1 host with Ubuntu 14.04 as client. When hovering mouse over something and/or selecting something by dragging, the mouse moved it’s position by some offset.

See the GIF below.

VMWare bug

How to fix it?

  • Locate VMWare Workstation, right click and open Properties.
  • Under Compatibility check Disable display scaling on high DPI settings.
  • Restart VMWare Workstation.

The mouse should now behave normally.

tags: vmware, bug


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