[3ddesktop-dev] Other apps (vmware) grabbing the keyboard

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I've installed 3ddesktop 0.2.5 on Gentoo Linux, with KDE3.1. It works fine=
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except for one problem...

I have a button on my panel that invokes 3ddesk to switch desktops. This wo=
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as expected, unless I am running vmware (which I do quite a lot) and I move=
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the mouse back over the vmware window before 3ddesk goes into 3d-mode to=20
switch the desktop. (While it is still grabbing the screen, I guess)

If this happens, vmware has decided it wants the keyboard and mouse focus, =
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grabs it away from 3ddesk, so when my desktop zooms out to see the other=20
screens, pressing keys on the keyboard don't switch between them.

Pressing ctrl-alt, which is vmware's hot-key to release the mouse, causes a=
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mouse to be displayed on top of the 3ddesk screen, but I still can't intera=
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with it using the keyboard. Klicking on 3ddesk causes it to spin one screen=
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to the left, but does not allow me to select a screen.

The only way I can find of getting out of this is to do ctrl-alt-12 to get =
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of X, go to a standard linux console, kill 3ddeskd and go back into X again.

Any ideas on how this can be fixed?

Simon

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