Hi, I'm running into some strange behavior running open-vm-tools 2010.6.16 (from the Ubuntu repository) on a Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit guest. In Unity mode, if I close a guest window by hitting a keyboard key (for example, typing "exit" in gnome-terminal and hitting the Enter key) and focus goes back to a host window or desktop, then whatever key press triggered the window closing becomes stuck the next time a guest window is opened. The guest thinks that key is still being held down. By contrast, if I use a mouse button to close a window, no problems occur.
I haven't read the code for unity but I suspect this is due to unity disabling the guest virtual keyboard when guest windows lose focus. The reason I think that's the case is because I can duplicate this behavior by using xinput to disable keyboards in Linux. For example if I have a keyboard at device id=9, and I run "xinput set-prop 9 'Device Enabled' 0" by hitting Enter after typing in the command, then the system thinks the Enter key is kept down. If instead I execute a script containing the same command by, say, double clicking it in nautilus, no problems occur. I suspect what Unity does to disable keyboards is triggering this underlying bug in X. Someone suggested that one can work around this problem while using xinput by running for example "sleep 1 && xinput --set-prop 9 'Device Enabled' 0". The issue seems to only occur when a key press is registered and the keyboard is being disabled at the same time. I'm hoping someone could give me some pointers about how this behavior is implemented in the unity code so that perhaps I could insert a workaround to avoid this issue. Thanks, Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
