Re: [e-users] keyboard locked after Vmware

[Kevin M. <kt...@gm...>]

On 02/27/2014 09:01 AM, Pierre Couderc wrote:
> 
> 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 <pi...@co...> 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
>>
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> No, to restore keyboord I need to quit e.
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Can you click into settings and restore the default key bindings without having to quit e?

Kevin