Recently I ran into the issue that touch scrolling on my virtual development machine did not work at all.
Typically I'm using a mouse with scroll wheel but on vacation I'm using the touchpad.
My hard / software environment:
- HP Elitebook 8460p Notebook
- with Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad (latest drivers)
- Windows 10 Pro
- VMWare Workstation 12 Pro latest version (12.5.6 build-5528349)
The problem
The touchpad scroll action didn't seem to be forwarded to the VM correctly while mouse scrolling worked without any problems.
I tried very many possible solutions and also was in contact with the VMWare support but could not find any working solution.
Tried the following...
These were some of the things I tried WITHOUT success with the help of VMWare support:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/262287/synaptic-touchpad-on-laptop-not-…
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1786869&s=31c4764bc1d9f15bc05…
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1150077
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1150077&p=9886823#post9886823
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2322413&p=13578990#post135789…
https://askubuntu.com/questions/503898/touchpad-scrolling-doesnt-work-o…
https://askubuntu.com/questions/322741/touchpad-permanently-disabled-af…
https://bitbucket.org/DouglasCameron/windows-trackpad-scroller-for-vmwa…
Working solution (workaround):
Finally and as my last hope I tried the following workaround tool:
https://github.com/devpack/vmware-synaptics-touchpad-scroll
and IT WORKS!! :)
Conclusion
This is not really a good and clean solution from my point of view because it should work correctly in VMWare without any additional tools. Anyway the tool shows a proper fix is possible and demonstrates the problems cause. I'm still hoping for VMWare to fix the issue in core.
