On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:25:14 +0100 Pierre Couderc <[email protected]> said:
> I have a problem of keyboard, which was soon signaled in > http://lists.enlightenment.fr/enlightenment-bugs/2012/12/6994.html > > I do not have access to https://trac.enlightenment.org/e/ticket/1968 > Is the problem solved ? > This is blocking and critical for me. > > Thank you all. > PC i suggest you ask vmware for support. 1. it's a commercial offering that is closed source so we have no idea what it does. 2. they sell/support the product so it's kind of their job 3. why is it that no other apps (qemu, rdesktop, xephyr etc. tat run virtual display environments) have a problem, but vmware does? think about it. would it most likely be something vmware does to modify key mappings or otherwise mess about and then doesnt restore things? i can't say - i don't have its code. but e doesn't specially do something different because vmware is there - it doesn't have special "lets mess with things because we have vmware" code. it sets up a keymap ONCE on start (or if you reconfigure it). e grabs specific key combinations (with modifier masks) when it starts. all of these work fine until vmware runs - then they break. given that e has no code to specifically look at that does anything special - there is nothing to "debug". e simply sets focus to an x11 window when focus changes and that's it. my instinct tells me that it's most likely some evil hackery in vmware to attempt to make your x kbd look as close to the raw hw kbd as it can by messing with keymaps when it gets focus, but for whatever reason it doesn't restore things - and it is absolutely its job to do such a thing. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
