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

Niels Berglund niels.berglund at gmail.com
Thu May 8 14:34:56 EDT 2008


Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 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.
Ah, well - I might actually have a go at that. Thanks!

Niels



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