the empty quarter

VMware Player experiences mouse capture problems when run under Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic host. Inside the guest window, the mouse pointer works fine in a top-left rectangle of the window (640×480 pixels?) but outside of this area the mouse pointer switches its focus to the host. Add the following line to the file /etc/vmware/bootstrap to fix […]

In a previous post I described to how to enable the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace key combination to restart the X server. However, those steps were applicable to Ubuntu 9.04 only and have no effect in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). The necessary changes to enable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X in Karmic are below. Open Preferences > Keyboard and […]