Comments on: Ubuntu 9.04 Vmware Arrow Keys Problem

By: jamsheer AK

jamsheer AK — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:57:29 +0000

yup this works fine for me

By: b2ag

b2ag — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:45:11 +0000

running
echo “xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true” > .vmware/config
on the client side seemed to have worked for me. After that i could actually navigate through the vm bios. thanks.

By: frank

frank — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:11:57 +0000

Russell, thanks for the catch. I added code tags to prevent WP from messing up the “x”.

By: Russell Jackson

Russell Jackson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:58:00 +0000

Note, if you cut and paste the authors post, you must convert the “x” in the 0x key mappings back to an normal x. WordPress is changing it to a times symbol.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:10:33 +0000

Cool. I could get by without the extra keys, but it was painful. I found that editing /etc/vmware-server-console/config and setting each xkeymap.keycode property didn’t work, but Sergey’s suggestion did work for VMware Server Console. Thanks for the info.

By: Anurag Dubey

Anurag Dubey — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:27:55 +0000

Sergey,

Thanks. Your tip works perfectly. Kubuntu 9.04 and VMWare Server 2.0.1.

By: lpk

lpk — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:29:51 +0000

All these hints were very helpful even vmware themself has a good introduction into this problem. Combined I use the following entries on my Lenovo T400 to enable a swiss german keyboard in /etc/vmware/config
xkeymap.noKeycodeMap = "TRUE" xkeymap.keysym.ISO_Level3_Shift = 0x138 xkeymap.keysym.dead_circumflex = 0x00d xkeymap.keysym.dead_grave = 0x01a xkeymap.keysym.dead_diaeresis = 0x01b

By: frank

frank — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:35:54 +0000

Sergey,

Thanks for the tip. I will try that next time.

By: Sergey Solyanik

Sergey Solyanik — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:01:53 +0000

Just add following line

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true

to /etc/vmware-server-console/config or ~/.vmare/config
and restart console/player. There is no need to restart server.

By: Ed Adasiewicz

Ed Adasiewicz — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:19:48 +0000

Thanks for the info. After installing Ubuntu 9.04 and vmware server I noticed that my normal positioning keys would not work in vmware but the keypad keys would. I also use nedit in linux which is based upon motif and there my normal positioning keys work but the keypad keys don’t. One down and one to go. Thanks again.