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bjeffjp
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‎10-10-2022 12:26 PM

Ubuntu host is capturing keyboard shortcuts on Windows guest

I have a VMPlayer running on a Ubuntu TLS 22.04 host with Windows 10 as a guest. After upgrading my Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04, all the useful shortcuts as alt+tab, win+e, and win+d, pressed on the Windows guest are captured by Ubuntu. For example, when I press super on Windows, the Unity is called showing ubuntu programs, and when I press alt+tab, I can only switch among ubuntu programs. Can you help me with this problem?

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dmutende
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‎11-25-2022 03:31 AM

I am also facing the same challenge. I am running VMware Workstation 16 Pro on Ubuntu 22.04.1 host with Windows 11 22H2 guest. Kindly, anyone with a solution to this?

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fraviofii
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‎12-22-2022 11:51 AM

I have this same problem.

My host machine is Ubuntu 22.04. My VMWare version is 16

My guest machine is Ubuntu 18.04.

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fraviofii
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‎12-23-2022 03:41 AM

I found the solution of this issue.

The reason is that Wayland is not working correctly with VMWare Workstation. I can't say if it is an issue with VMWare Workstation.

This link also reports the problem:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1432072/vmware-workstation-16-2-4-pro-some-keys-are-not-sent-to-the-...

And this is how I solved:

https://onlinux.systems/guides/20220520_how-to-disable-wayland-on-ubuntu-2204

 

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