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I am running Guest OS Ubuntu 12_04 on VMware Workstation 8.0.4 on Windows 7 Host. I have been logged on for 4.5 hours doing some sort of heavy but not so heavy computation. All of the sudden, I cannot access my open Terminator windows or click on anything on the left bar. In one of my Terminator windows, I have an on-going process which is still running because I see output spit out occasionally. I also see that the time on the upper bar for Ubuntu OS is updating properly.

So how can I regain focus of the Ubuntu OS? I think it is most likely an OS thing and not a Mouse or Keyboard thing unless if I accidentally hit some sort of hotkey. In my Windows 7 OS, my mouse and keyboard function just fine and I have tried to replug my mouse but no effect.

I cannot restart my Ubuntu OS at least until my running process has finished so I am looking for any way I can regain control of the Guest OS now.

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In my case, Eclipse started to choke the Guest OS. At first, none of the alt+ctrl+f(n) keys worked for me and so I thought that I needed a non-standard answer, but with persistence I was finally able to get a terminal so that with ps -ef | more I could see that it was eclipse and killed it with kill -9. Now I have control once again of my Guest OS.

demongolem
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