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[Bug 195982] Re: Shift key (and caps lock) stop working when using VMWare

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From: John Faith <jfaith7@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 23:23:08 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 195982 <195982@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The behavior I saw before shift, ctrl stopped working was that all
keyboard events and the mouse state were captured. The mouse moved, but
stayed as the guest OS's mouse icon (vs Kubuntu's).  I could not get to
a local console and had to remotely kill the vmplayer process to get
back any control.  I also tried "export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes" in
/usr/bin/vmplayer, which seemed to make the problem happen less
frequently, but it still happens.

I'm using Natty and VmWare player 3.1.4 build-385536

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  Shift key (and caps lock) stop working when using VMWare