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. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
