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and subject line RE: Bug#1108643: Trixie Keyboard Shortcut Issues within VMWare
has caused the Debian Bug report #1108643,
regarding in VMware with open-vm-tools-desktop, XFCE becomes unresponsive after
repeated copy/paste
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Package: general
Version: Unknown
I am not sure about the package I'm afraid and I did email debian-user for
advice as per this "If you are unable to determine which package your bug
report should be filed against, please send e-mail to the Debian user mailing
list<mailto:debian-u...@lists.debian.org> asking for advice." but wasn't
informed so will leave it as 'general' I think.
I've installed Trixie RC1 a few times over the past week in VMWare Workstation
Pro and noticed a recurring issue.
I noticed that it sometimes struggles with what I assumed was copying and
pasting but had forgotten that the keyboard shortcuts for those are actually
Ctrl+Shift plus either c or v.
Whenever I copied and tried to paste into Konsole with CTRL-V I could no longer
click into the desktop. Sometimes a notification may still pop up during this
but mouse or keyboard control was gone.
I thought it was when doing CTRL-V from one vm to another but it also just
occurred within the single vm. This occurs no matter the Desktop environment.
Also just a moment ago on a basic install of xfce I went to copy from a command
from a text file within the trixie vm and then did CTRL-V to paste it to the
console and ^ V gets continuously added to the command line tens of times and
then I can't access the desktop.
Another time even just selecting the text I wanted to copy from gedit and
copying it hung the desktop and multiple times copying text from another vm
with CTRL-V into the Trixie Konsole caused the issue. VMware tools is installed
also.
I'm trying to streamline a bootstrap install script to install all my
pentesting tools and dotfiles hence why I've installed it many times and
reverted to bare bones installs on vmware too to play around with my script.
It's quite common that this is happening on fresh installs and I have lots of
RAM available too.
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I have figured out this issue thankfully and you'll be glad to hear that as you
probably expected it isn't Debain related, so I am closing this now.
Back in 2023 there was a bug in VMWare 17.5 where something similar was
occurring:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/183nume/vmware_workstation_175_kali_linux_stops_accepting/
I added these 2 lines to the Trixie vmx file for VMWare and it now has no
issues it seems:
keyboard.allowBothIRQs = "FALSE"
keyboard.vusb.enable = "TRUE"
17.6 version of VMWare apparently fixes this issue but since VMWare was bought
by Broadcom in the intermediary years the VMWare Workstation Pro update url no
longer works hence I was stuck on 17.5
Kali which I use every day had the fix from 2023 but to be honest I forgot I
had added those lines.
Anyhow, all is well now. Thanks for your patience and I look forward to moving
to Debian stable next month.
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