On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:58 AM, John Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings fellow 9fans, > > I am having a strange and annoying issue with Plan9 inside vmware > fusion. In both windowed and full screen mode the cursor will, > seemingly randomly, "jump" into and out of the VM. That is to say that > if Plan9 has control of my mouse, and I move the cursor across the > "screen" of the VM, there are regions where the mouse will suddenly be > handed over to the Mac OS. I found that drawing a new terminal across > the screen will change the areas that are effected. This happens with > both "older" installs that I migrated over from VMWare Workstation on > Linux as well as "fresh" installs from iso images downloaded as > recently as two weeks ago. > > I have not seen this problem with VMWare workstation. > > 1) Has anyone else seen this behavior? > 2) Is there any known fix for the problem? > >
I've seen this happen with various guests in a VMware Player. Not sure of the version. My workaround was to set the Player to never ever do "intelligent" focus. There was a setting somewhere where you could set click to focus and key combo to release it again. I believe the magic mouse focus is one of the features that usually only works reliably if you install the VMware guest enhancement additions. Robby
