I have been working in Ubuntu a lot lately and really loving it. OSX may be prettier, but as far as workflow, nothing beats Ubuntu. I upgraded to the newest distro, 9.04 and had a few issues that I just got ironed out.
Slow mouse problem
After I finished the upgrade and installed 9.04, things were a bit wonky. The mouse was slow and choppy. Eventually I found this post on the VMware forums:
http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2009/04/ubuntu-904-on-vmware-fusion-2.html#comments
Check out the third from last comment by 11. Here’s the gist:
In the terminal, type:
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
and then
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
That’s it!
Shared folder doesn’t show up
Before the upgrade, I had a folder in /mnt/hgfs/Public that is shared with my Public folder in OSX. After the upgrade, it was gone. So I found this guy’s post:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/208507
I read the instructions carefully, installed his patch script and viola! I’m back in business.
Thank you so very much helpful people for posting your knowledge online for the rest of us. You make free software usable.