>> All of this is kind of a hack. VMWare wants 100% of the mouse and >> keyboard events to go to the virtual machine without your host >> environment getting in the way, even if what you're doing normally >> has special meaning to the host. > > I see. However, if it does that, it cannot expect to be able to > communicate with the outside world, as it seems to do. Maybe this *is* the > Problem after all. > > @Jürgen: Could you try whether the attached patch helps? (It > disables all grabs during function execution and *does* break > complex functions with non-immediate actions.)
I tried the patch. Unfortunately, it makes no difference to our problem. After all, the error message from Fvwm about the failed grab [fvwm][ComplexFunction]: <<ERROR>> Grab failed in function EWMHActivateWindowFunc, unable to execute immediate action occurs when Vmware is switched _to_ fullscreen mode. And at this stage no window is lost yet. This happens only when switching back from fullstreen to normal mode. Juergen
