vmmouse_detect(1)

📦 version 13.2.0, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

okay bestie, welcome to the vmmouse_detect(1) page from the General Commands Manual — it’s basically a tiny vibe check for VMware mice. 🖱️✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

vmmouse_detect — VMware mouse device autodetection tool 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vmmouse_detect

just run it, periodt. 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • vmmouse_detect has no options — that’s it, bestie, zero flags to memorize. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so vmmouse_detect is literally a tool for detecting if you’re running in a VMware environment where vmmouse is used. It exits with a 0 return value if the vmmouse client is enabled, and 1 if not. slay. 💖

🩺 DIAGNOSTICS 🩺

vmmouse_detect’s exit status is used to communicate information. no cap, the exit code is doing the talking. 🗣️

  • 0 — vmmouse_detect found a mouse and exited normally. 🐭✨
  • 1 — Either the vmmouse client was not enabled, or it is not being run from within a VMware virtual machine. 😭💀

🐛 BUGS 🐛

Please report bugs in vmmouse_detect at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdetect/vmmouse_detect. don’t suffer in silence, bestie 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

vmmouse_detect is copyright 2007 VMware, Inc. 👑

📜 LICENSING 📜

The vmmouse_detect source code is licensed under a BSD-like license. See COPYING for details. 📄

This manual page is licensed under the GNU General Public License. ⚖️

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

that’s the whole page, bestie — footer tea: X Version 11, xf86-input-vmmouse 13.2.0, vmmouse_detect(1). mwah 💋✨

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