Caps Lock Issues With Upgrade

[greylupi]

Good day,

I updated, then tried re-installing the software. Caps is acting weird.

I will type anything and it will be in lower case. *Press CAPS LOCK" and text does change to upper case; however, it will not revert back to lower case when pressing CAPS LOCK again.

Even weirder is when i keep a keypress held down it will pop in a lower case letter randomly (i.e.: DDDDDDDDDDDdDDDDDDdDDDDDDDDDDDDDd)

Is there a way to revert to a previous version of workstation ? or any fix for this ?

Thank you.

[d4rckh]

Thank you, will wait. While then I found a temporary solution which was posted by justaguy above. I want to add that you can do this also:

setxkbmap -option caps:none # (disable the caps lock key)

xdotool key Caps_Lock # (toggle caps lock)

From now you can use SHIFT to write upper case letters

[givemeatip]

Wow, with all these issues with 15.5.5 being reported, I'm starting to get grateful that I wasn't able to make this 15.5.5 update install here, lol. For details, see my thread: Unable to install update 15.5.5

[Mits2020]

It's not deterministically certain that the problems would happen to your installation too. Everybody's PC is a different beast. There are some 10-20 complaints out of several thousands of users (some Moderator please provide us some estimate of the # of Workstation users ) and in my humble opinion this is an admirable level of product quality control.

[givemeatip]

Mits2020​

Correct, but in this case, I'm now experiencing the same bug with caps lock after finally installing the 15.5.5 update after following the instructions, lol

[Mits2020]

I am lost in this thread - too many tips and instructions... For future reference, could you please clarify what exactly you did that enabled you to install 15.5.5?

[givemeatip]

Mits2020​

In that other thread, I managed to install 15.5.5 following the instructions of haiweiz. I selected his answer as the "correct" in that thread. Unable to install update 15.5.5

[Mits2020]

Great! He beat me for some minutes while I was writing the same suggestion... Glad to mark this as solved!

[altae]

On Linux there is a somewhat decent workaround. I placed a script in autostart that disables Caps Lock on startup using the command "setxkbmap -option caps:none". With Caps Lock disabled there is now no risk of accidentally pressing it. I then placed another script on my desktop which manually toggles Caps Lock using the command "xdotool key Caps_Lock". This way I can invoke Caps Lock if needed by simply double clicking the script on my desktop.

[banackm]

We're aware of the problem are are looking into it internally.

In the meantime, you might be able to work-around the caps-lock issues by setting the config option:

mks.win32.useInjectedMagic=FALSE

In either your VM's vmx file or your per-user config file.

[altae]

For me the workaround fixes both issues, Caps Lock and Num Lock.

[d4rckh]

Is this only for windows? Because I see win32 mentioned. I don't have this problem on windows, only in linux guests.

[banackm]

As far as I know the issue only hits Windows hosts, and that's what the config option is affecting.

I've only seen this reported for Linux guests, although I suspect Windows guests may also be affected, just much less frequently.

[d4rckh]

Yeah, my host is windows 10, and I only see the problem with linux guests

[d4rckh]

Yup, your fix worked! Thank you so much :smileygrin:

[george_beyond]

Had to move two VMs to VirtualBox as well until this is resolved.

[d4rckh]

You don't need to, just add this to your vm config file as @bm said above

mks.win32.useInjectedMagic=FALSE

[v3rlly]

It worked for me. thanks !

after changing the vmx file i restarted my host machine.

vmware workstation 15.5.5

guest OS: kali linux 2020.1b

[d4rckh]

I didn't need to restart my host

[george_beyond]

Changing the file and rebooting the host worked as well thanks.

[manniongeo]

I'm adding one more symptom that I haven't seen reported in this thread so far:

• My CTRL-G / CTRL-ALT key combinations don't work, either, whenever the CAPS LOCK issue occurs

My host is Windows, guest is Linux, and Workstation version is 15.5.5.

In my instance, either all of these keys work, or they all don't work. Because of that correlation, I suspect that they're related to the same root cause.