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

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Niels Berglund wrote:

> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>  On Thu, 8 May 2008, Niels Berglund wrote:
>> 
>> >  I guess the title says it all; are there any work-arounds for the bug 
>> >  where keyboard shortcuts are disabled when a virtual machine running in 
>> >  VMWare gets focus (i.e. you do something in a VMWare virtual machine, 
>> >  and when you come back to OpenBox all keyboard shortcuts are disabled)?
>>
>>  If you're using 3.4.6, upgrade to 3.4.7, if you're already using 3.4.7, i
>>  guess you'd have to downgrade to 3.4.5.
>
> On 3.4.7.2 already - unfortunately :-(

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.

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Mikael Magnusson