Sunday, December 28, 2008

VMWare arrow keys problem

I found some problems with arrow keys, insert/delete, pg up/pg down and home/end keys with vmware 6.5. When I press these keys, my Windows opens the Start Menu. So I always have to use the keypad's arrow keys. -_-..

Actually the solution is very simply, close the vmware and create a config file in ~/.vmware directory (gedit ~/.vmware/config)

and add this:-

xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0x138 # Alt_R
xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0x135 # KP_Divide
xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0x11c # KP_Enter
xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0x148 # Up
xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0x150 # Down
xkeymap.keycode.113 = 0x14b # Left
xkeymap.keycode.114 = 0x14d # Right
xkeymap.keycode.105 = 0x11d # Control_R
xkeymap.keycode.118 = 0x152 # Insert
xkeymap.keycode.119 = 0x153 # Delete
xkeymap.keycode.110 = 0x147 # Home
xkeymap.keycode.115 = 0x14f # End
xkeymap.keycode.112 = 0x149 # Prior
xkeymap.keycode.117 = 0x151 # Next
xkeymap.keycode.78 = 0x46 # Scroll_Lock
xkeymap.keycode.127 = 0x100 # Pause
xkeymap.keycode.133 = 0x15b # Meta_L
xkeymap.keycode.134 = 0x15c # Meta_R
xkeymap.keycode.135 = 0x15d # Menu

5 comments:

  1. You really saved my day with this!
    I was going crazy before I found your post... :-)
    Thank you!

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  2. Thank you so much!!

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  3. Thank you .....worked like a charm

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  4. wicked post....made a lot of difference to me...thanks

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  5. Absolutely made my day... Thankyou so so much...

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