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

Milleman skicka at post.com
Thu Mar 5 17:04:26 UTC 2009


Made a typo in the second sentence. Should be 8.04, not 8.10!
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Hi,

The VMWare keybord vs Linux (Ubuntu only?) issue continues. In 8.04, the
after effects of using VMWare Desktop in Ubuntu where easily solved by
executing the "setxkbmap" after switching back to the host.

But... in Ubuntu 8.10 it have turned to the worse. Now the "setxkbmap"
doesn't have any effect any longer. It messes up the shift and ctrl keys
so I can't make the "shift-ctrl-v" for copying text into a text
terminal. In the VMWare client, the "Alt Gr" - key have turned into an
"enter" -key, for example making a newline when pressed in text editor.
This means that I can't use some keys to produce certain characters when
switching to a VMWare client.

I still hope that there will be a solution to this problem, as I do love
to use Ubuntu.

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