Mouse pointer moves but does not click

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

My mouse moves but does not click.

I have a file open and unsaved on VirtualBox. How can I proceed in
order to avoid the lost of the changes I did on the mentioned open
file?

The keyboard is working and I am using Fedora 28.

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Paul Smith  wrote:
> My mouse moves but does not click.
>
> I have a file open and unsaved on VirtualBox. How can I proceed in
> order to avoid the lost of the changes I did on the mentioned open
> file?
>
> The keyboard is working and I am using Fedora 28.

Let me clarify that the file that is open is on a MS Windows
VirtualBox guest machine running onto Fedora 28.

Paul

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 03:28:46PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> My mouse moves but does not click.
> I have a file open and unsaved on VirtualBox. How can I proceed in
> order to avoid the lost of the changes I did on the mentioned open
> file?
> The keyboard is working and I am using Fedora 28.

I'm not a VirtualBox user and am not sure how much I can help, but... a
couple of questions:

* Was the mouse working and it suddenly stopped?

* What application is your file open in?

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Matthew Miller  wrote:
> > My mouse moves but does not click.
> > I have a file open and unsaved on VirtualBox. How can I proceed in
> > order to avoid the lost of the changes I did on the mentioned open
> > file?
> > The keyboard is working and I am using Fedora 28.
>
> I'm not a VirtualBox user and am not sure how much I can help, but... a
> couple of questions:
>
> Was the mouse working and it suddenly stopped?
>
> What application is your file open in?

Thanks, Matthew.

Yes, the mouse was working properly, but suddenly it stopped working fine.

The application where the file is open is MS Word.

My idea was to send a command to VirtualBox to save the state and then
poweroff the guest virtual machine. I have tried

VManage controlvm "my machine name" savestate

but, surprisingly, it says that there is no virtual machine running...

Paul

[birger monsen]

Do you have multiple pointing devices attached? Like a second mouse, a
touchpad, trackpoint, etc... Then a mouse operation started on one can
block button operations on the other.

Ctrl-s is pretty universal to save in both windows and linux apps.

Den tor. 3. mai 2018, 17.09 skrev Paul Smith :
> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Matthew Miller 
> wrote:
> > > My mouse moves but does not click.
> > > I have a file open and unsaved on VirtualBox. How can I proceed in
> > > order to avoid the lost of the changes I did on the mentioned open
> > > file?
> > > The keyboard is working and I am using Fedora 28.
> >
> > I'm not a VirtualBox user and am not sure how much I can help, but... a
> > couple of questions:
> >
> > Was the mouse working and it suddenly stopped?
> >
> > What application is your file open in?
>
> Thanks, Matthew.
>
> Yes, the mouse was working properly, but suddenly it stopped working fine.
>
> The application where the file is open is MS Word.
>
> My idea was to send a command to VirtualBox to save the state and then
> poweroff the guest virtual machine. I have tried
>
> VManage controlvm "my machine name" savestate
>
> but, surprisingly, it says that there is no virtual machine running...
>
> Paul
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[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 03:28:09PM +0000, birger monsen wrote:
> Ctrl-s is pretty universal to save in both windows and linux apps.

Alt-F for the File menu, too.

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Matthew Miller  wrote:
> > Ctrl-s is pretty universal to save in both windows and linux apps.
>
> Alt-F for the File menu, too.

Thanks to you both, Matthew and Birger. By doing

ALT + F4

on the guest virtual machine I was able to close the mentioned open
file and properly shutdown the guest virtual machine.

The problem is now solved!

Paul