Comment 17 for bug 772063

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Andrey Gelman (andrey-gelman) wrote : Re: [Bug 772063] Re: App icon on the Unity Launcher lost track of running instance

I had exactly the same behavior right after installing VMWare Player,
however after a reboot things became normal, so I did not consider it a
"real" bug.

On 12/24/2011 07:04 PM, Jason Sopko wrote:
> The same thing happens to me with VMware Player 4.0.1-528992.x86_64 on
> Ubuntu 11.10. I launch VMware Player, and it runs fine. I can start a
> virtual machine and interact with it. But when I click to another window
> on my desktop, I can no longer access the VMware Player window. When I
> try to alt-tab to it, there is no icon/option available, and in my Unity
> sidebar there is no triangle showing that the application is in use. I
> can see that the process is still running, however, from using 'ps aux'
> in a shell, and when I try launching VMware Player again it says that
> the VM is in use.
>