F9 and Vmware : a working solution (kernel-2.6.25.3-18.fc9

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon May 19 00:46:29 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 02:01 +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 5/19/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > now i seem to have lost the use of my shift key. it works within the
> > windows vm but not in linux. aaaaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhh. i'd put a smiley
> > here but i can't type it ...
> 
> :-)
> 
> xmodmap can probably heal your broken Shift key.

It's both Shift and Control, which is a bummer. I tried saving a fresh,
correct xmodmap ('xmodmap -pke > file'), then restoring it after exiting
VMware. It didn't work. I had to completely log out and in again to get
my proper keyboard back.

I'll check around to see if this has been reported.

poc




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