I'm going to guess that is related: I find with vmwareplayer v5.0.1 build-894247 in Ubuntu 12.10 that as soon as I move the mouse over a vmwareplayer window and back again, it breaks the keyboard mapping in Unity and gnome-shell. In both unity and gnome-shell, CTRL stops working altogether; in gnome-shell additionally other keys stop working as you would expect, eg 'm' will make the bottom status bar appear, as left arrow executes some other gnome-shell shortcut.
setxkeymap fixes the problem, but only until the next time the mouse moves over the vmwareplayer window, which makes vmwareplayer pretty much useless for me. This might possibly also be a duplicate of bug #195982 (vmware's keymapping has been broken since early 2008! I guess not many people use vmware in Ubuntu?). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994585 Title: Keyboard/Mouse erratically broken when switching between vmware-player VM and Unity Desktop Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Sometimes when switching from a vmware-player VM to Unity desktop, the keyboard key repeat and Ctrl+c/Ctrl+v stops working. At the same time, the mouse gets incredibly slow, to a point it becomes unusable. Looking at g-c-c keyboard/mouse, settings/sliders are at usual places. Just touching these settings/sliders slightly is enough to reload usable settings. I can see this behavior in many install of VMware-player 4 series, during PP and now OO cycle. I'm currently using VMware Player 4.0.2 build-591240 on fresh installs of PP. Regards, Effenberg To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/994585/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
