Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion
Well, I'm stumped. ALT key just does not work as designed on my Fusion/FreeBSDS-7.0-RELEASE install. Its probably pilot error but I just don't see it. I even tried inverting the Alt/Option key to see if that would work. I thought the issue was I rebuilt a VMWARE kernel stubbing out a lot of unnecessary modules from a normal GENERIC build. I know its far fetched but I thought when this did work once, I was running GENERIC. Man this sucks! :(! -aps On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JN: Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, hotkeys on Mac use the Apple button, not ALT so I don't think this applies but I will try to investigate if there is some conflict with ALT and Fusion itself. I can't find anything in Preferences that would lead me to believe that there is a conflict (I do know that normally you have to hit fn+alt/option unless you use an advanced tunable via your .vmx file). Btw, I had this working at some pointhI just thought of something...gonna try something else. Thanks! -aps On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008 04:37:44 pm Alexander Sack wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everydoy: I apologize if this isn't exactly the right place but I'm out of options! I've posted on the Fusion community website up on vmware.com but am still lost. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE under VMWare Fusion on a MBP/Leopard ( 10.5.1). I've installed the vmware-tools port as well as the tools shipped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate 7.0-RELEASE. All is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or some other issue is preventing me from switching terminals (ALT-F1, F2, etc.). Has anyone seen this problem before? If you run Workstation or Fusion have you seen any issues with switching terminals? Any pointers would be much appreciated! Btw, the reason why I say its the handling of the ALT key is that I can't get into kdb (ALT-CTLR-ESC, etc.). This is really frustrating! -aps I just happened to read this from a Workstation VM so I played around with it a bit. The reason ctrl-alt keystrokes don't work is that they never get to the VM. VMware uses them for its own hotkey combos: ctrl-alt = release mouse/keyboard, ctrl-alt-enter = toggle full-screen, ctrl-alt-right = next running VM, etc. I went into the options for VMware (on the host, Windows in my case) and changed the hotkey to ctrl-alt-shift. It didn't take effect immediately, but once I paused my VM, closed VMware and started it back up again I was able to use ctrl-alt combos in my VM. That includes switching to a virtual terminal from X, switching workspaces in xfce (ctrl-alt-left and right), etc. JN -- What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson -- What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion
Btw, the reason why I say its the handling of the ALT key is that I can't get into kdb (ALT-CTLR-ESC, etc.). This is really frustrating! -aps On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everydoy: I apologize if this isn't exactly the right place but I'm out of options! I've posted on the Fusion community website up on vmware.com but am still lost. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE under VMWare Fusion on a MBP/Leopard ( 10.5.1). I've installed the vmware-tools port as well as the tools shipped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate 7.0-RELEASE. All is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or some other issue is preventing me from switching terminals (ALT-F1, F2, etc.). Has anyone seen this problem before? If you run Workstation or Fusion have you seen any issues with switching terminals? Any pointers would be much appreciated! Thanks! -aps -- What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson -- What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion
Hello Everydoy: I apologize if this isn't exactly the right place but I'm out of options! I've posted on the Fusion community website up on vmware.com but am still lost. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE under VMWare Fusion on a MBP/Leopard (10.5.1). I've installed the vmware-tools port as well as the tools shipped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate 7.0-RELEASE. All is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or some other issue is preventing me from switching terminals (ALT-F1, F2, etc.). Has anyone seen this problem before? If you run Workstation or Fusion have you seen any issues with switching terminals? Any pointers would be much appreciated! Thanks! -aps -- What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 04:37:44 pm Alexander Sack wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everydoy: I apologize if this isn't exactly the right place but I'm out of options! I've posted on the Fusion community website up on vmware.com but am still lost. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE under VMWare Fusion on a MBP/Leopard ( 10.5.1). I've installed the vmware-tools port as well as the tools shipped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate 7.0-RELEASE. All is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or some other issue is preventing me from switching terminals (ALT-F1, F2, etc.). Has anyone seen this problem before? If you run Workstation or Fusion have you seen any issues with switching terminals? Any pointers would be much appreciated! Btw, the reason why I say its the handling of the ALT key is that I can't get into kdb (ALT-CTLR-ESC, etc.). This is really frustrating! -aps I just happened to read this from a Workstation VM so I played around with it a bit. The reason ctrl-alt keystrokes don't work is that they never get to the VM. VMware uses them for its own hotkey combos: ctrl-alt = release mouse/keyboard, ctrl-alt-enter = toggle full-screen, ctrl-alt-right = next running VM, etc. I went into the options for VMware (on the host, Windows in my case) and changed the hotkey to ctrl-alt-shift. It didn't take effect immediately, but once I paused my VM, closed VMware and started it back up again I was able to use ctrl-alt combos in my VM. That includes switching to a virtual terminal from X, switching workspaces in xfce (ctrl-alt-left and right), etc. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion
JN: Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, hotkeys on Mac use the Apple button, not ALT so I don't think this applies but I will try to investigate if there is some conflict with ALT and Fusion itself. I can't find anything in Preferences that would lead me to believe that there is a conflict (I do know that normally you have to hit fn+alt/option unless you use an advanced tunable via your .vmx file). Btw, I had this working at some pointhI just thought of something...gonna try something else. Thanks! -aps On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008 04:37:44 pm Alexander Sack wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everydoy: I apologize if this isn't exactly the right place but I'm out of options! I've posted on the Fusion community website up on vmware.com but am still lost. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE under VMWare Fusion on a MBP/Leopard ( 10.5.1). I've installed the vmware-tools port as well as the tools shipped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate 7.0-RELEASE. All is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or some other issue is preventing me from switching terminals (ALT-F1, F2, etc.). Has anyone seen this problem before? If you run Workstation or Fusion have you seen any issues with switching terminals? Any pointers would be much appreciated! Btw, the reason why I say its the handling of the ALT key is that I can't get into kdb (ALT-CTLR-ESC, etc.). This is really frustrating! -aps I just happened to read this from a Workstation VM so I played around with it a bit. The reason ctrl-alt keystrokes don't work is that they never get to the VM. VMware uses them for its own hotkey combos: ctrl-alt = release mouse/keyboard, ctrl-alt-enter = toggle full-screen, ctrl-alt-right = next running VM, etc. I went into the options for VMware (on the host, Windows in my case) and changed the hotkey to ctrl-alt-shift. It didn't take effect immediately, but once I paused my VM, closed VMware and started it back up again I was able to use ctrl-alt combos in my VM. That includes switching to a virtual terminal from X, switching workspaces in xfce (ctrl-alt-left and right), etc. JN -- What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
switching terminals
Is the following possible? I log into a computer, and by executing ps see that there's some program xx reading and writing to/from a terminal called /dev/ttyp3. The controlling terminal for my current processes, however, is /dev/ttyp2. Now, can I make the program xx change its terminal so that it starts writing to /dev/ttyp2 and its output magically appears in front of me? Atis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching terminals
Try watch. On Nov 17, 2005, at 3:36 AM, Atis wrote: Is the following possible? I log into a computer, and by executing ps see that there's some program xx reading and writing to/from a terminal called /dev/ttyp3. The controlling terminal for my current processes, however, is /dev/ttyp2. Now, can I make the program xx change its terminal so that it starts writing to /dev/ttyp2 and its output magically appears in front of me? Atis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks http://www.secure-computing.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
