[aklug] Re: intersting vmware behavior

I'm glad that I'm not the only one that was experiencing this problem. I
hate it when it happens because the only way I knew to regain the Shift
and Control buttons was to reboot. The ALT button still working for
selecting menu drop downs from within certain programs.

FWIW - It usually would happen to me when I would rapidly switch between
VMs and X applications. I also wouldn't always press CTRL+ALT to release
focus on the VMs and that would cause it at times too. Very frustrating.

-Sean

Greg Madden wrote:
> This issue has hit me, I use Vmware WS 5.5.4, Linux host, various guests
> including Windows & Linux.
>
> After a certain sequence of operations in a vm the modifyer keys on the
> keyboard, in the host os, stop working, no caps lock... etc. The keys
> still work in the guest. AFAIKT switching the vm to full screen mode
> does this here, I have read references to a combination of mouse activity
> and keystrokes will do this.
>
> Good news bad news :-), The good, I learned what xmodmap and setxkbmap
> are doing on my box,they have been hanging around for years without my
> noticing. The bad is I need to run 'setxkbmap' after a full screen vm
> session to get a fully functional keyboard. Using 'xmodmap' , before and
> after this issue, shows all the keyboard modifyers being erased, then
> restored by setxkbmap.
>
>
>

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Received on Thu Feb 19 22:53:08 2009