I'd bet money this has something to do with the libraries VMWare ships with their product. The product installs it's own instead of using the system's which has resulted in some goofy stuff in the past. I'm experimenting with it to see which libraries in /usr/lib/vmware/lib can be removed successfully. So far I've removed /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.o and I haven't had the keyboard problem again.
I'd bet money this has something to do with the libraries VMWare ships with their product. The product installs it's own instead of using the system's which has resulted in some goofy stuff in the past. I'm experimenting with it to see which libraries in /usr/lib/vmware/lib can be removed successfully. So far I've removed /usr/lib/ vmware/ lib/libgtk- x11-2.0. so.o and I haven't had the keyboard problem again.