FWIW, I had thought that this was due to my keyboard mistakes, e.g.
pressing Ctrl+Space instead of Ctrl+Alt, and so I disabled the SCIM
triggers as follows:
System->Preferences->SCIM Input Method Setup
->FrontEnd->Global Setup
->Trigger (delete Ctrl+Space)
->Next Input Method (del Ctrl+Alt+Down)
->Previous Input Method (del Ctrl+Alt+Up)
->Show Input Method Menu (del Ctrl+Alt+Right)
->IMEngine->Generic Table
->Full Width Letter (del Shift+Space)
This did not help, however. This condition is reproducible for me, as
someone noted above, by holding down Ctrl+Alt while dragging the mouse
out of a vmware-server 1.0.6 console running a Windows VM with VMware
Tools installed.
A custom panel launcher to run setxkbmap is a workaround that works for
me.
Specs:
$ vmware -v
VMware Server 1.0.6 build-91891
$ uname -srvmo
Linux 2.6.24-19-server #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 23:54:28 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
$ apt-cache policy xorg
xorg:
Installed: 1:7.3+10ubuntu10.2
Candidate: 1:7.3+10ubuntu10.2
Version table:
*** 1:7.3+10ubuntu10.2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:7.3+10ubuntu10 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
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Shift key (and caps lock) stop working when using VMWare
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195982
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