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

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I have two Ubuntu machines, one is running 8.04 LTS 64bit Server edition
and the other is 9.04 64bit Desktop edition.

I have installed VMware Server on the 8.04 server and I am accessing it
with Firefox via HTTPS.

I have the problem being discussed here and running setxkbmap restores
my keyboard mapping so that the Ctrl and Alt keys start working again
both in the Desktop and Server windows.

My guess is that this problem is related to VMware setting the keyboard
mapping on the host, to match the mapping on the virtual machine.

Problem could be, I have a 105 key USB keyboard on my workstation but
vmware has a 102/3 key virtual keyboard attached to the virtual machines
(I have 1 Redhat and 1 Windows 2003 server running as virtual machines)

This could also be related to how WMvare "grabs" the keyboard.  I don't
know..  Fact is I don't think this is a OS problem at all.  I belive the
OS is behaving as it should.-

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