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klaine8
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Remote x connection and keyboard Alt Gr

Hi,

I have two machines. I try to run VMWare WS with x-forwarding. The main machine is at 193.94.146.135 and the headless server on which the VMWare is istalled is at 193.94.146.61.

I have installed VMWare at the server.

Then I make ssh connection with ssh -X 193.94.146.61

then at the prompt xeon1> vmware

everything works except I cannot produce anything with Alt Gr like @

When I start a virtual machine It informs me that it has detected a keyboard with se101 which is obviously wrong. it should be 105. Where and how does is detuct this?

Any pointers?

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I found in the net a comment that adding xkeymap.usekeycodeMap = true in /etc/vmware/config should help. Well it does for a minute.

With it I get the @ with Alt Gr but problem is that it leads to totally unworking machine. The machine 193.94.146.135 keyboard locks solid. Not even capslock is working.

Machine itself is not dead - I can boot it by ssh:ing to it and reboot.

Hopefully someone has an insight to this.

Best Regards

Kari Laine

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