However, after my recent upgrade to Fedora 10, I suddenly noticed that some of my keys were no longer working in the VM: This included the arrow keys, but also some keys, which have been reachable via "Alt Gr" only, like '@', or '\'.
A quick search on Google revealed that I am far from being the only one bothered with that problem. In fact, the difficulties are more likely related to a Kernel upgrade. Users of Ubuntu 8.10 with a similar new kernel seem to suffer the same trouble. Fortunately, solutions were always at hand. For example, the VMware support suggests to use
xkeymap.usekeycodeMapIfXFree86 = true
or
xkeymap.usekeycodeMap = true
in ~/.vmware/config. Other sources proposed a list of explicit code settings instead, like
xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0x138 # Alt_R
xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0x135 # KP_Divide
xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0x11c # KP_Enter
xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0x148 # Up
xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0x150 # Down
xkeymap.keycode.113 = 0x14b # Left
xkeymap.keycode.114 = 0x14d # Right
xkeymap.keycode.105 = 0x11d # Control_R
xkeymap.keycode.118 = 0x152 # Insert
xkeymap.keycode.119 = 0x153 # Delete
xkeymap.keycode.110 = 0x147 # Home
xkeymap.keycode.115 = 0x14f # End
xkeymap.keycode.112 = 0x149 # Prior
xkeymap.keycode.117 = 0x151 # Next
xkeymap.keycode.78 = 0x46 # Scroll_Lock
xkeymap.keycode.127 = 0x100 # Pause
xkeymap.keycode.133 = 0x15b # Meta_L
xkeymap.keycode.134 = 0x15c # Meta_R
xkeymap.keycode.135 = 0x15d # Menu
In my case, none of these solutions worked completely. The hex codes were refused by VMware Server and the usekeycodemap stuff was fixing some keys, but not all. It turned out, that I had to convert the hex key codes to decimal in order to get it working. For the convenience of those who share my trouble, I post my settings here:
xkeymap.keycode.108 = 312 # Alt_R
xkeymap.keycode.106 = 309 # KP_Divide
xkeymap.keycode.104 = 284 # KP_Enter
xkeymap.keycode.111 = 328 # Up
xkeymap.keycode.116 = 336 # Down
xkeymap.keycode.113 = 331 # Left
xkeymap.keycode.114 = 333 # Right
xkeymap.keycode.105 = 285 # Control_R
xkeymap.keycode.118 = 338 # Insert
xkeymap.keycode.119 = 339 # Delete
xkeymap.keycode.110 = 327 # Home
xkeymap.keycode.115 = 335 # End
xkeymap.keycode.112 = 329 # Prior
xkeymap.keycode.117 = 337 # Next
xkeymap.keycode.78 = 70 # Scroll_Lock
xkeymap.keycode.127 = 256 # Pause
xkeymap.keycode.133 = 347 # Meta_L
xkeymap.keycode.134 = 348 # Meta_R
xkeymap.keycode.135 = 349 # Menu
2 comments:
Thanks a bunch! I've spent a couple of hours trying to figure this out.
A tip for those running Ubuntu 8.10:
If you have trouble with key mappings, and quick and easy fix is to add this to your /etc/vmware/config file:
xkeymap.noKeycodeMap = "TRUE"
This fixed everything but the "Alt Gr" and the "Page Up" and "Page Down" buttons.
Thanks a lot,
I made an upgrade from ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 and finally 9.04 Jaunty.
I had the same trouble with a french keyboard and vmware server2.
Your tip is the best I found because other didn't work or worked partially.
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