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. 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 enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
