VMWare Alt Key gets Stuck

admin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:14:24 +0000

There seems to be a bug in VMWare, at least in Linux when you switch back and forth between the Guest and Host sometimes the Alt key gets stuck in the Host, where in the guest the key is not stuck. This simple script solves the problem:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/xmodmap – << XXX
clear shift
add shift = Shift_L Shift_R
clear lock
add lock = Caps_Lock
clear control
add control = Control_L Control_R
clear mod1
add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R
clear mod2
add mod2 = Num_Lock
clear mod3
clear mod4
add mod4 = Super_L Super_R
clear mod5
add mod5 = Scroll_Lock
XXX

Just run it and it will clear the stuck keys.

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vmware: D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:20:09 +0000

This happens on Gentoo’s vmware-workstation ebuild installation, like explained here and here the problem is you have dbus running, but not hal, simply add hal to your default startup:

rc-update add hald default

run it:

/etc/init.d/hald start

and retry the drill with vmware.

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VMWare Alt Key gets Stuck

vmware: D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace