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5 Replies Last post: Aug 2, 2008 4:30 PM by etung  

VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac posted: Aug 1, 2008 9:52 PM

Click to view HuiLi's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Aug 1, 2008
Whenever a VM guest goes full screen, the MSN messenger's status will be changed to "Busy". This could be nice if MSN's original status was Online, but potentially disastrous when it was "Appear Offline". I mean, when I'm hiding from everyone in my contact list, I certainly would want to stay that way no matter what I'm doing, including starting a VM. Is anybody else also annoyed by this? Hopefully this would change in future releases.

Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac

1. Aug 2, 2008 8:18 AM in response to: HuiLi
Click to view etung's profile Guru 11,086 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
What version of Fusion and MSN Messenger is this? What version of OS X?

Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac

3. Aug 2, 2008 3:17 PM in response to: HuiLi
Click to view etung's profile Guru 11,086 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
To clarify, is the trigger starting a virtual machine or switching a virtual machine to fullscreen? If it's switching to fullscreen, do other fullscreen apps (e.g. QuickTime, DVD Player) trigger this?

Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac

5. Aug 2, 2008 4:30 PM in response to: HuiLi
Click to view etung's profile Guru 11,086 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
My guess is that MSN Messenger is trying to be smart (and failing). If you're using a fullscreen app, you don't want to be bothered by popups, so it listens for apps going fullscreen and changes the status to busy - except it's not checking the current status. Given that it also happens with QuickTime, I highly doubt it's our bug.

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