Comment 9 for bug 869408

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Is15 (is15) wrote : Re: gnome-shell hangs when switching to a running VMWare Player Window in Activities menu

Ditto for both my (physical desktop) machines with vmware player :

Guest: Win XP, VM tools up to date
Host: Ubuntu 11.10
Desktop: Gnome-shell
Video Driver: Intel® G41 x86/MMX/SSE2 (and on the other desktop, same symptoms with Gallium open source driver for ATI HD 6770 card)

Gnome-shell appears able to freeze at any point when viewing vmplayer, although trying to switch to or from the vmplayer window may increase the odds.