I'm going to guess that is related: I find with vmwareplayer v5.0.1 build-894247 in Ubuntu 12.10 that as soon as I move the mouse over a vmwareplayer window and back again, it breaks the keyboard mapping in Unity and gnome-shell. In both unity and gnome-shell, CTRL stops working altogether; in gnome-shell additionally other keys stop working as you would expect, eg 'm' will make the bottom status bar appear, as left arrow executes some other gnome-shell shortcut.
setxkeymap fixes the problem, but only until the next time the mouse moves over the vmwareplayer window, which makes vmwareplayer pretty much useless for me. This might possibly also be a duplicate of bug #195982 (vmware's keymapping has been broken since early 2008! I guess not many people use vmware in Ubuntu?). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994585 Title: Keyboard/Mouse erratically broken when switching between vmware-player VM and Unity Desktop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/994585/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
