On 02/27/2014 07:58 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > 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. > > Does the keyboard functionality restore once a VMWare client is stopped? There are settings in VMWare to control mouse and keyboard "focus" in a VMWare client and the host that's running it....perhaps those need to be looked at.
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