On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:21:26 -0500 mik firestone <[email protected]> said:
> For the longest time, I have been having a really odd problem with vmware. > Every time I started a guest OS, I would lose portions of my keyboard as > soon as vmware tools started running in the guest. When I say portions, I > mean just certain keys -- like "a", "s", "d" but not "q". It was > particularly confusing because if I enabled the caps lock and held the > shift key down, I had a full keyboard. If I restarted X, it fixed the > problem for a few seconds. I tried xev to see what it was seeing and got > some very odd results. > > It was when I googled those results that I found an article suggesting it > was a bad combination of the window manager's shortcuts and vmware. I have > a lot of custom keyboard shortcuts in e17. When I checked the list of > shortcuts against the list of keys that stopped working, it was a perfect > map. To test it even further, I deleted all of the keyboard shortcuts and > tried vmware again. The only key I lost was 'g'. To test it even further, I > started up KDE instead of e17 and I am not seeing the same symptoms at all. > I am therefore somewhat certain that this is an e17 thing, not an X or > vmware thing. it is most certainly a vmware thing. e sets up bindings the same way wm's have since dinosaurs roamed the earth. it grabs keys+modifiers. it just so happens that these may clash with what vmware wants by default and it has some fallbacks that make it grab keys without modifiers and no one ever tests that at vmware. as it's closed it's hard to tell, but if you use something lik xscope and dump an x session log out of vmware u may likely find this to be the case... > Can anybody point me in a direction to try to fix this problem? I really > need to be able to use vmware, I cannot handle losing all the keys from the > keyboard and I cannot stand KDE. I am of the opinion that this got much > worse within the last two weeks, so if nobody has a suggestion, I guess I > can start back-leveling my build and see if I can find a specific > version/checkin. But I am hoping somebody will have already figured this > out and save me a long and tedious day. > > Thanks, > Mik > -- > I am all that is bad, all that is evil. > I am Mojo Jojo! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
