I can confirm Adam Simpkins' assessment of the situation in comment 151. VMWare is definitely clearing the keyboard map upon focus and failing to reset it if you can move the mouse out of the window with CTRL held down. I can reproduce this 100% of the time.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 (fully updated) VMWare Player 2.0.5 build-109488 Gnome Desktop Lenovo Thinkpad T61p Nvidia proprietary drivers (package version 169.12+2.6.24.13-19.45) Guest OS - Windows XP Pro SP3 (with VMWare Tools) -- Shift key (and caps lock) stop working when using VMWare https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195982 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
