Application appears to crash on any compiz desktop effect

[Scott Thatcher]

Binary package hint: vmware-view-open-client

This bug appeared after upgrading from lucid to maverick. After running the vmware-view client and connecting to a remote Windows instance, the viewer will crash after any instance of a compiz desktop effect. For example, hitting ALT-TAB to trigger window switching, or triggering the effect to zoom out and show all desktops or the effect to scale and show all windows on a desktop.

Actually, after turning off desktop effects, I get the same behavior again when anything related to the window is done, including just clicking my pointer on the window title bar.

The error I get on the command line is this: NOT_IMPLEMENTED gtk/desktopDlg.cc:532

I'll attach a full log. Googling that error message yields the following bug report:

http://code.google.com/p/vmware-view-open-client/issues/detail?id=86

This behavior wasn't present in lucid, where everything worked wonderfully. Thanks for your work on this.

Scott Thatcher

[Scott Thatcher (thatcher)]

A further note: This problem doesn't seem to appear when running the ubuntu desktop live image and installing the viewer in that environment. So, maybe something that's only an issue on upgrade? Is there some way to troubleshoot something related to the upgrade that would be causing the problem?

st

[Mathieu (mathieu-benguigui)]

using option "-K" solved the problem for me (vmware-view -K)