The keyboard is correct, but not for copy & paste

[SommyJo]

Both my PC and the Virtual Machine have the keyboard with the Italian layout.

If I write in the VM, I use the Italian keyboard without problems.

But if I copy and paste a text, from the PC to the VM, the keys are pasted badly.

The problem is serious because in the case of code, all special characters are altered.

I am working with WS 15.5.2 on PC Win 10 Pro

The VM is Ubuntu Server 18.04

Open-VM-Tools has already been installed together with the server.

Copying is done through the WS Edit / Paste menu.

All the suggestions found on the net were not useful.

Tanks in advance.

[continuum · Accepted solution]

If you want predictable results I highly recommend to use WinSCP on the Windows host.

The embedded texteditor can be used to copy code to a file on Linux and it works with 100 % predictable results.

To copy commands I use putty.

Thats is less convenient of course but once you get used to it it is the IMHO best option to copy/paste from Windows hosts to a Linux VM.

Even more so if you use Linux VMs without vmware-tools installed.

[SommyJo]

Thanks for your answer.

Usually I also use Putty and WinSCP, but on some occasions it is not very comfortable.

I don't understand why this problem has dragged on for years without VMWare ever solving it.