CDE on FreeBSD mouse not working

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CDE on FreeBSD mouse not working

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: marcel alexandre

Created: 2023-04-25

Updated: 2023-06-29

marcel alexandre - 2023-04-25

I'm virtualizing the latest version of freebsd with qemu/kvm and virt-manager. Yesterday I installed the CDE desktop environment and followed the installation recommendations by editing the configuration files. The CDE went up but the mouse doesn't work.. can anyone help with that? Thanks

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- thinkunix - 2023-06-29
  
  Can't speak to qemu/kvm but I had simliar issue with FreeBSD guest in
  Oracle VirtualBox, it started fine but no mouse. I found this link helpful:
  
  https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mouse-pointer-integration-with-virtualbox-guest-additions.49075/
  
  I installed FreeBSD pkgs:
  cde-24-2.4.0
  virtualbox-ose-additions-legacy-5.2.44_4 (matches my virtualbox version)
  
  Create /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d containing:
  
  Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier "Mouse 1"
  Driver "vboxmouse"
  EndSection
  
  Enable the service:
  root# sysrc vboxguest_enable="YES"
  root# sysrc vboxservice_enable="YES"
  root# reboot
  
  then the mouse worked.
  
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