[openbox] Any workaround for bug #3551 (keyboard shortcuts disabled by VMWare)?

[Niels Berglund]

Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008, Niels Berglund wrote:
>
>> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>>  On Thu, 8 May 2008, Niels Berglund wrote:
>>>
>>> >  Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>> > >   On Thu, 8 May 2008, Niels Berglund wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>> >  [snip]
>>>  You can probably fix it by commenting out the calls in event.c in 
>>> the if
>>>  that checks (e->type == MappingNotify), if you don't mind compiling 
>>> from
>>>  source.
>> That fixed it (commenting out the code in the else if check (e->type 
>> == MappingNotify)!! Thanks!! The question is now what side effects it 
>> will have, if any?!! Anyway, so far so good!!
>
> The only side effect should be that if you change your keyboard layout 
> by for example setxkbmap dvorak, your keybinds won't change until you 
> reconfigure or restart openbox. Since the gains seem to be lower than 
> the trouble I might remove this feature in the next version, unless 
> Dana can fix it more.
Ah OK - then I'm a happy camper, thanks again!! Just as a side note, it 
seems to be only VMWare that causes this behavior. I tried out 
VirtualBox as well, and didn't experience this.

Thanks!!

Niels