Using VMWare Workstation 8.0.1 build-528992
Host OS is Windows 7
Guest OS is CentOs
Working in full-screen mode
Hey all,
For some reason, these stupid hint balloons keep popping up when I'm in full screen mode. They either say "to release input, press ctrl-alt" or "To direct input to this virtual machine type ctrl-g".
I have "Enable All Hints" and "Show Enabled Hints" unchecked, and I have this line in my .VMX file :
hints.hideAll = "TRUE"
Could you please help me get rid of these popup balloons? They keep popping up and I can't make them stay away. It's really annoying. And looking back in the help forums, it looks like this has been a problem for years. What's the deal here?
if I remember right that line should go into preferences.ini
Was there any closure here? I installed Workstation 9.0.2 build-1031769 about fifteen minutes ago and the balloon-hints are already driving me batty. I tried editing the preference.ini file to hints.hideAll = "TRUE" but it didn't seem to help. Can anyone provide any input?
It appears that this is an issue that dates back to at least 2006. That was before the iPhone. What gives?
Thanks,
shastafir
I think what gives is that your situation seems rather unique, and the rest of us are not seeing these pop-up baloons.
I don't see them, not in full screen mode or any other mode.
Under the Workstation main menu, there is a HELP menu item, which contains a check box for enabling all hints or Show only Enabled hints.
Maybe unchecking both will kill those pop ups?
Is it possible thiat you could take and post a screenshot? I myself have never seen a popup per se in WS - but its a complex program so I might be lucky
Thank you.
VMWare 11, same issue
Super-annoying "To release input, press CTRL+ALT" balloon pop-up text all the time when I go full-screen.
Doesn't happen in windowed mode.
This is a weird one. I've been using VMWare Workstation since version 5, and I had never seen this balloon before. This week I got a new host and when I installed VMWare 11 on it, I got this balloon and now I see it 20-30 times a day.
It should be very easy to make it possible to not show this. What's surprising is the number of people who have posted about this over the last few years and yet it hasn't been solved. The product is not so complicated that they couldn't fix this - if it is, they need to be rewriting it.
I don't know what makes it bug some people and not others. VMWare loaded an update this morning and now I've got this garbage.