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5 Replies Last post: Aug 2, 2008 4:30 PM by etung
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VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac

Aug 1, 2008 9:52 PM

Click to view HuiLi's profile Lurker HuiLi 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.
Reply Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac Aug 2, 2008 8:18 AM
Click to view etung's profile Guru etung 11,030 posts since
Oct 15, 2006 VMware
What version of Fusion and MSN Messenger is this? What version of OS X?
Reply Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac Aug 2, 2008 10:10 AM
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Click to view HuiLi's profile Lurker HuiLi 3 posts since
Aug 1, 2008
MacOSX 10.5.4, MSN for Mac 7.0.0 (080409), and VMWare Fusion both v1.1.3 (trial version) and 2.0b2.
Reply Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac Aug 2, 2008 3:17 PM
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Click to view etung's profile Guru etung 11,030 posts since
Oct 15, 2006 VMware
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?
Reply Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac Aug 2, 2008 4:16 PM
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Click to view HuiLi's profile Lurker HuiLi 3 posts since
Aug 1, 2008
The trigger is switching to fullscreen. I now realized that this is not unique to VMWare, but also happens when Quicktime goes fullscreen. In fact, I asked a friend to test this on a Windows OS and it also happens. I guess maybe I should complain to MSN messenger ......
Reply Re: VMWare Fusion messes with MSN Messenger on Mac Aug 2, 2008 4:30 PM
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Click to view etung's profile Guru etung 11,030 posts since
Oct 15, 2006 VMware
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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