How do I stop VMware Workstation 6.5 from giving up input focus for no reason on Ubuntu 10.4?

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Published on 2010-05-26T14:37:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 14:42 UTC
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After patching some kernel modules, I got VMware Workstation 6.5.4 running on my Ubuntu 10.4 x86_64 machine. However, now my Windows XP SP3 guest instance cannot keep mouse input captured for any length of time. I can sometimes activate a control in the guest if a double click very quickly, but it's not reliable (and extremely annoying).

Everything appears to be fine in Unity; the problem just appears when I'm running the instance in the VMware window.

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