On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Robert Raschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
Maybe this help you:
VMware Workstation settings:
Edit -> Preferences -> Input
uncheck "Grab when cursor enters window"
uncheck "Ungrab when cursor leaves window"
VMware Player settings:
preferences.ini
pref.motionGrab = "FALSE"
pref.motionUngrab = "FALSE"
Antonin
