Ubuntu
gnome-shell package

  1. Bug #869408
  2. Comment #43

Comment 43 for bug 869408

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

I have disabled VMware's feature to automatically grab and ungrab the mouse cursor and it seems like the bug addressed here is not occurring anymore, but I haven't thoroughly tested this yet.
This setting can be changed (in VMware workstation) by opening Edit -> Preferences -> Input -> Automatically grab and ungrab the mouse cursor. I am not aware of a similar setting in VMware Player. Perhaps it is worth for others to try working with this setting turned off.