Where did my vmware go?

[Mark Knecht]

Sorry for the noise. I restarted the application and the one that was
running showed up again so no harm done.

Is there something special about how XFCE is able to disconnect the
app's GUI from the environment and then allow it to show up again.
I've never seen this happen before in my limited use of Gnome and
fluxbox.

Thanks,
Mark

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   Strangeness. I've got a dual-head setup in which I was (and still
> am apparently) running a long, compute intensive job inside of vmware.
> I was just sort of clicking around here and there doing things on the
> computer and everything in vmware disappeared from the screen. However
> I see it's still running using 100% of 1 CPU so everything looks
> normal except that I don't see the app.
>
>   I was able to log out of XFCE without any questions, and I was able
> to log back in, but I cannot find the visual part of this app anymore.
>
>   Is there something about XFCE where it can hide things? I've looked
> at all 4 desktops. There's nothing on any of them.
>
>   Can I get this back?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>