Re: guest OS looses focus before mouse reaches the hidden toolbar

[Matthias A. <gu...@un...>]

El día Wednesday, July 18, 2012 a las 11:57:15AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have the following configuration:
> 
>  host: Win7, VMware workstation 7.1.3 build-324285
> guest: FreeBSD vm-9Current 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #2 r220692: Sun Apr 17 03:28:12 CEST 2011     guru@tinyCurrent:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>        open-vm-tools-313025_2 Open VMware tools for FreeBSD VMware guests
> 
> and I run the guest in fullscreen mode with the VMware toolbar hidden,
> only a small stripe of it is visible on top of the display;
> 
> sometimes, while moving the mouse to some upper part, the guest looses
> the focus when the mouse is around 1cm away from the hidden toolbar, the
> toolbar falls down and *both* have now the focus, guest and VMware; a
> click, for example to close a window in guest, already once suspended
> the guest, because VMware got the click.

I have here a small JPEG showing the two mouse pointers at the same
time, the white one of Windows and the black one of the FreeBSD guest;
the toolbar has falling down;
guess what will happen on click :-)
it will try to crash VMware!

	matthias
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