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Multimon on Linux guest: HardwareAcceleration breaking multimon #15

Open Massimo-B opened 9 years ago

Massimo-B commented 9 years ago

Hi,

I have the latest tools 9.10.0.2476743 on Gentoo Linux. I'm using x11-base/xorg-server-1.17.1-r1 and xfce-base/xfwm4-4.12.2. This is VMware Workstatation 11.1.0 on Windows 7.

Starting firefox with a stored session of multiple windows breaks the multiscreen. Both screens are still visible, but the pointer disappears on one screen and doesn't accept control anymore. I always need to reset multiscreen by "Cycle multiple monitors" which means that all windows on all virtual desktops are reset to one screen only and need to be re-arranged.

I always had that issue with older official tools, so looking for the latest version and coming to open-vm-tools.

Xfce4 on native Linux does not have these issues. Firefox is the only application causing this. A running Firefox instance for days works fine, only restart causes the issue. Firefox is the only application I know using the XSHM feature which could be related to this issue.

Massimo-B commented 9 years ago

Hi, how to re-open this issue?

I noticed it is not only Firefox but every Hardware-accelerated graphics, like glxgears.

Appearantly the applications work but the multi-screen is lossing the mouse pointer until re-enabling multi-screen. Please try, this is reproducible.

auscompgeek commented 9 years ago

It is open.

Massimo-B commented 9 years ago

Can you reproduce the problem? Is this the right place to file that bug report?