VMware Server Console and the mouse?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

On Fri, 09 May 2008 09:57:30 -0700
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> The difference is you're using a different window manager with different 
> behavior.  To our knowledge, xfwm4 is ICCCM and netwm compliant.  Since 
> VMWare is closed-source, there's no way to tell if it might be doing 
> something strange that could be triggering a bug in xfwm4.  You'd have 
> to ask VMWare about that.  From the Xfce perspective, all I can suggest 
> is that maybe xfwm4 is triggering a bug in VMWare.
> 
> > (And btw, I have never had any trouble running VMware the last 4-5 years....  :) )
> 
> Past behavior is not necessarily indicative of present or future 
> behavior ^_~.  I've found VMWare to be somewhat quirky in the UI 
> department in the past, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is their 
> issue.  And unless you can point to a place in the xfwm4 code where it's 
> doing something incorrectly wrt mouse grabs, there's not much else I can 
> say.

Oki, I will end it here and blame it on VMware.... :)

BTJ