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Re: VMWare 6.02 and Linux screen saver?



 On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Jerry Feldman wrote: 

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:18:48 -0500 (EST) 
> Scott Ehrlich <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
>> I have a user who freshly installed Linux desktop.  They also installed 
>> VMWare 6.02. 
>> 
>> When they click the mouse on their Linux desktop, the screen saver 
>> properly activates.  But, when they click the mouse in their VMWare 
>> session, the Linux screen saver never activates.  This has been tried for 
>> both VMWare Player and Workstation. 
>> 
>> I don't know if it makes any difference, but the VMWare Guest OS is Windows XP 
>> w/SP2. 
> 
> Please be more specific. What linux distro, what Desktop Manager 
> (GNOME, KDE). 


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