Workspaces popping up , why?

[mikeeve]

New install of Mint 14, Cinnamon 64-bit in Virtual Box 4.2.6, Windows 7/64 host, 4-core AMD.

When I am at the desktop in the default workspace (1), a window pops up showing 2 windows labeled Workspace 1 and Workspace 2. This happens seemingly at random when I move the mouse around the desktop. Then I click on Workspace 1, but the slightest mouse motions throw me back to (what I think is) the workspace switcher.

Is this normal behaviour? Maybe a setting in Cinnamon needs to be changed (I turned of Workspace OSD in Settings, but doesn't help).

Might be a problem with Virtual Box. BTW, there is noticeable lag when typing this text.

I thought it might be my cordless mouse so switched to a corded mouse. Same problem.

I'll play around more with settings unless someone has a solution.

[mikeeve]

I disabled HotCorner in Settings and looks like that fixed the problem, but I wasn't even coming near the corners when I was having the problem.

[passerby]

Your assumption was correct; it's a virtualbox problem. Cinnamon does that for me in vbox, but it works fine on actual installs.

[mikeeve]

Your assumption was correct; it's a virtualbox problem. Cinnamon does that for me in vbox, but it works fine on actual installs.

Thanks. Do you know if this is a problem with XFCE or other flavors?

[passerby]

I haven't experienced it with other DEs (apart from gnome shell).
Basically it keeps registering a mouseover event on the top left corner, hence why disabling the hot corner did the trick.

[cmate4352]

New install of Mint 14, Cinnamon 64-bit in Virtual Box 4.2.6, Windows 7/64 host, 4-core AMD.

When I am at the desktop in the default workspace (1), a window pops up showing 2 windows labeled Workspace 1 and Workspace 2. This happens seemingly at random when I move the mouse around the desktop. Then I click on Workspace 1, but the slightest mouse motions throw me back to (what I think is) the workspace switcher.

Is this normal behaviour? Maybe a setting in Cinnamon needs to be changed (I turned of Workspace OSD in Settings, but doesn't help).

Might be a problem with Virtual Box. BTW, there is noticeable lag when typing this text.

I thought it might be my cordless mouse so switched to a corded mouse. Same problem.

I'll play around more with settings unless someone has a solution.

I've got the exact same problem running LM 14 64 KDE in VB Totally random.
Please post if you find a solution. I'll do the same

[mikeeve]

I've got the exact same problem running LM 14 64 KDE in VB Totally random.
Please post if you find a solution. I'll do the same

Disabling HotCorners in Settings (see above) stopped the workspace switcher popping up. In VirtualBox, machine settings, I changed the video memory to max and enabled 3d acceleration. Seems to be running well with no known lag. Quite useable now, so I will continue using 14/Cinnamon in VB. Also, will install some engineering tools (Octave, PyLab) for an online course that starts in a couple of weeks. I also saw something about changing the Linux kernel's clock frequency from 1000Hz to 100Hz for guest machines to reduce load on the host maching, but I don't think I need that yet.