Parallels Stealing Focus, Switching Spaces

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Dogfish Jones

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Using build 5582, and for the most part love it.

However, every so often the Space automatically switches to Parallels. I'm running Parallels in Coherence Mode, set in Space 3. Sometimes there is a popup on that screen, sometimes not. Most often, I can't figure out why it switched.

It would be nice if Parallels would bounce the icon in the Dock when there is an "event" in the VM instead of forcing a Space switch. Maybe this could be a configurable option?

I'm also looking forward to the day when we can spread VM apps across Spaces. That'll be sweet.
 
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I think if we could get status updates on this issue it would go a long way towards making people feel better about it. This is a very annoying problem for me--so annoying that, like some of the other posters, I would jump to a competing product right now if I thought it would solve the problem.
 
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I only see this happen when it first starts up if I am on a different space then the one I have picked for Parallels.

For example, in the Spaces preferences, I have picked space 2 for Parallels to run. If I am in another space (1 for example) and launch Parallels, Spaces will jump between space 1 and 2 4-5 times. Then, when I try to click in the Parallels window to "select" one of my two images to boot, it will automatically jump back to space 1 then back to space 2 and nothing has been chosen. I usually have to grab the top of the Parallels window, move it around in space 2 for a few section to make everything calm down again. I have also seen this happen when I shut down a Windows machine in Parallels but it isn't as frequent.

Of course, other applications do not do this. If I launch iTunes (for example) from space 1, I jump to space 4 and then stay on space 4 until *I* change the space.

I have a Mac Pro running 10.5.5 with Parallels 5608. If you need any more info, please let me know.
 
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Any Updates Yet

Hi John, et al -

Parallels has just started doing this focus-stealing for me, too. So add me to the list of folks ever so slightly annoyed by it. So much so that I leave the VM shut down unless I really need it. When I'm done using it, I turn the VM back off.

Anyway, it's been over a month and a half since your last update on this thread. Is there any progress on a fix? Are you guys trying to roll it into a new version with a bunch of other things (which will obv. take a little longer), or just adding it to a one-off patch? Hopefully it's the latter...

Thanks!

jas
 
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use full-screen parallels rather than coherence

i've only experienced the focus stealing when running MS outlook in coherence. note that i only really run parallels for outlook so not sure about other apps but notice that outlook constantly does this when running parallels in coherence.

as soon as i run in full screen mode i have no issues.

doesn't look like a solution is coming soon at the rate parallels are going.
 
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pendolino said:
as soon as i run in full screen mode i have no issues.
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Right. Coherence seems to be the problem here, not any particular applications per se. I can have Windows running with no applications (I'm not talking about services. I'm talking user-initiated applications) and it'll still steal focus. Switching to full screen solves the problem. But, that's not really an adequate solution IMHO.

jas
 
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John, et al at Parallels -

John@Parallels said:
Yep, it is what we are actually doing :)
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I realize that P4.0 is the new hotness right now, but it's not ready for prime time, and I can't use it. So, I need to continue using P3.0. I want to make sure that this bug is still being worked on for 3.0. Are you expecting a patch/revision release to help fix this?

Thanks.

jas
 
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