[Bug 195982] Re: Shift key (and caps lock) stop working when using VMWare

[toobuntu]

FWIW, I had thought that this was due to my keyboard mistakes, e.g.
pressing Ctrl+Space instead of Ctrl+Alt, and so I disabled the SCIM
triggers as follows:

System->Preferences->SCIM Input Method Setup

->FrontEnd->Global Setup
	->Trigger (delete Ctrl+Space)
	->Next Input Method (del Ctrl+Alt+Down)
	->Previous Input Method (del Ctrl+Alt+Up)
	->Show Input Method Menu (del Ctrl+Alt+Right)
->IMEngine->Generic Table
	->Full Width Letter (del Shift+Space)

This did not help, however.  This condition is reproducible for me, as
someone noted above, by holding down Ctrl+Alt while dragging the mouse
out of a vmware-server 1.0.6 console running a Windows VM with VMware
Tools installed.

A custom panel launcher to run setxkbmap is a workaround that works for
me.

Specs:
$ vmware -v
VMware Server 1.0.6 build-91891

$ uname -srvmo
Linux 2.6.24-19-server #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 23:54:28 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

$ apt-cache policy xorg
xorg:
  Installed: 1:7.3+10ubuntu10.2
  Candidate: 1:7.3+10ubuntu10.2
  Version table:
 *** 1:7.3+10ubuntu10.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:7.3+10ubuntu10 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

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Shift key (and caps lock) stop working when using VMWare
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195982
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