swappa
July 14th, 2009, 08:06 AM
Hi there
Running Vmware workstation with Ubuntu jaunty as host and Windows 7 as guest. It is working very well, albeit with one major annoyance;
The guest is always full screen, but whenever OSD displays something on the host, my screen flickers and the notification from OSD is displayed on top of the Windows desktop. And, the mouse and the keyboard input reverts back to the Ubuntu desktop. Mouse input but not keyboard input (I need to click somewhere on my Windows desktop) will go back to the Windows guest after the osd display is done, but this is getting really annoying since both Skype and Pidgin notifications are processed by osd (even if I have disabled those events in both Skype (events settings) and Pidgin (disabled lib-notify plugin)).
How can I avoid osd interfering with my Windows desktop?
Any ideas? Thanks
Running Vmware workstation with Ubuntu jaunty as host and Windows 7 as guest. It is working very well, albeit with one major annoyance;
The guest is always full screen, but whenever OSD displays something on the host, my screen flickers and the notification from OSD is displayed on top of the Windows desktop. And, the mouse and the keyboard input reverts back to the Ubuntu desktop. Mouse input but not keyboard input (I need to click somewhere on my Windows desktop) will go back to the Windows guest after the osd display is done, but this is getting really annoying since both Skype and Pidgin notifications are processed by osd (even if I have disabled those events in both Skype (events settings) and Pidgin (disabled lib-notify plugin)).
How can I avoid osd interfering with my Windows desktop?
Any ideas? Thanks