I'm posting this primarily as a reminder to me, but perhaps it will help some else as well. I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 beta 64bit, installed VMware 6.5 and my up and down arrows were not working (one was opening the windows menu and some other crazy stuff). A co-worker of mine pointed me towards this handy little fix:
Function/arrow keys, etc. not working
This is an upstream bug in VMware’s code. If your keyboard is not functioning correctly in VMware, add this line to ~/.vmware/config (create file if necessary):
xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
http://www.ultimalinux.com/wiki/VMware
Worked like a charm. Awesome.
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It turns out that the same behavior happens under Ubuntu Intrepid, VMWare ESX 3.0 and VMware Server Console 1.0.4, and that the same fix solves the problem. I'll see if any of my co-workers have noticed the problem as well.
Worked great for me. Thanks.
Excellent cheers
Ace. Needed it for Ubuntu 8.10. Kudos to ya.
This worked for me on Ubuntu Intrepid 64b running VMWare Player 2.5.1. Thanks a lot.
Thank you VERY much.
This worked great. Tanks.
Running VMWare 6.5 on Xubuntu-x86_64 8.10 with kernel 2.6.27-9
Thanks for the very useful tip.
Same behaviour on Virtual Server 2.0 on Fedora 10 x86_64.
Fix works perfectly...thank you very much!
Cheers
Jeff
Worked like a dream, Workstation 6.5 with Fedora 10.
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