Comment 210 for bug 195982

I have two Ubuntu machines, one is running 8.04 LTS 64bit Server edition and the other is 9.04 64bit Desktop edition.

I have installed VMware Server on the 8.04 server and I am accessing it with Firefox via HTTPS.

I have the problem being discussed here and running setxkbmap restores my keyboard mapping so that the Ctrl and Alt keys start working again both in the Desktop and Server windows.

My guess is that this problem is related to VMware setting the keyboard mapping on the host, to match the mapping on the virtual machine.

Problem could be, I have a 105 key USB keyboard on my workstation but vmware has a 102/3 key virtual keyboard attached to the virtual machines (I have 1 Redhat and 1 Windows 2003 server running as virtual machines)

This could also be related to how WMvare "grabs" the keyboard. I don't know.. Fact is I don't think this is a OS problem at all. I belive the OS is behaving as it should.-