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

[Mikael Magnusson]

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:
>> > > 
>> > > >   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.
>> >  [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!!
>
> Thanks again!!!

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.

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Mikael Magnusson