VMware Server Console and the mouse?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

On Fri, 09 May 2008 10:27:14 -0400
Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 08:11 +0200, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 May 2008 21:23:58 -0700
> > "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 8 May 2008 23:32:26 +0200 Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > There is a strange thing happening with the mouse when using the
> > > > vmware console connected to a windows guest. When I try to move the
> > > > mouse outside the vmware window (the part where Windows resides), the
> > > > mouse jumps to the upper left corner of the screen instead of just
> > > > moving outside the Windows window... Is this a known problem with
> > > > xfce or?
> > > 
> > > Hard to tell, seeing as VMWare is closed-source, but I'd bet on a
> > > problem with VMWare.
> > > 
> > 
> > But I never had this problem when using Gnome..?
> 
> I hate to be a hardass here, but.
> 
> Just because the problem didn't get tripped by GNOME, doesn't mean it
> doesn't exist. In fact, I've bumped into A LOT of VMware bugs in
> environments not being KDE or GNOME, doubly so for the "server" stuff
> they have.
> 
> There is a LOT of GTK static and screwed up dynamic issues with VMware
> Workstation that I am surprised it even RUNS as well as it does. Mind
> you, I use VMware (Server, ESX, Fusion and Workstation) and I see lots
> of issues. Trivial user interface issues like this one... 
> 
> BAH! Qwitt yur Komplane-ing... </sarcasm>

I know that... My point was just that it did work before I switched to XFCE, so I was just wondering why? What's the
difference?
(And btw, I have never had any trouble running VMware the last 4-5 years....  :) )

BTJ