To all suffering from this issue... It would seem that it is harder to track down what causes this issue. I did some googling and found it to cross distros, so perhaps its a kernel problem? A problem with vmware tools? Vmware itself?
Ok, so all said and done I just want to be able to use my kb without rebooting when this happens. I stumbled across the following page; http://www.makesweet.com/bozo/2008/04/09/vmware-stops-shiftctrlalt-key- from-working/ Why not? I decided to try, the only problem is that when I open a terminal and press a key the terminal closes. Workaround? I copied the text from the browser (including the newline) and pasted that into the terminal and voila, it worked! The text, if you are stumped and need to copy/paste from your terminal is... setxkbmap K, so for Ubuntu, which is Gnome based, I made a little script called fix kb and dropped it in /usr/sbin, chmod a+x... Contents as follows #!/bin/sh zenity --question --text "Go ahead and reset the keyboard map?" if [ $? = 0 ]; then setxkbmap zenity --info --text "Done" fi I then right-clicked on my panel, add to panel, custom application launcher, put in the path to my app and now I have a clickable icon on my menubar so I don't have to mess around with copy/paste from a browser. I hope this helps point those looking into this bug in the right direction somehow, and really hopes it helps those who are as stumped as I am with this issue and really don't mind a lill button to click on to fix it in the meantime. -- Shift key (and caps lock) stop working when using VMWare https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195982 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
