On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:01:08 +0100 Pierre Couderc <[email protected]> said:

> 
> Le 27/02/2014 15:38, Kevin Martin a écrit :
> > 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.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> No, to restore keyboord I need to quit e.

you quit x as a result - key input doesnt go through a wm. it goes direct from
x to client. wm only indicates where it goes via setting focus.


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