yarlz Tracker https://communities.vmware.com/wbsdv95928/tracker yarlz Tracker Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:16:36 GMT 2023-11-17T18:16:36Z Re: Grab keyboard on wayland/gnome3 https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Grab-keyboard-on-wayland-gnome3/m-p/2287423#M28704 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'd like to add that pressing win+E results while vmware is supposedly grabbing my keyboard, triggers the gnome action i configured for that key.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:18:59 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Grab-keyboard-on-wayland-gnome3/m-p/2287423#M28704 yarlz 2020-03-18T16:18:59Z Re: Grab keyboard on wayland/gnome3 https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Grab-keyboard-on-wayland-gnome3/m-p/2287422#M28703 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>on my guest system? yes.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:17:55 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Grab-keyboard-on-wayland-gnome3/m-p/2287422#M28703 yarlz 2020-03-18T16:17:55Z Grab keyboard on wayland/gnome3 https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Grab-keyboard-on-wayland-gnome3/m-p/2287420#M28701 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm using VMWare Workstation Player 15.5.2 build-15785246 on arch linux, running gnome3 + GDM (so wayland, not xorg). My guest OS is Windows 10.</P><P></P><P>The player fails to capture my keyboard, which is rather annoying since I can't use the windows shortcuts (i.e. Win+E for explorer, Windows key for start menu).</P><P></P><P>I have tried whitelisting the app, by running</P><P><SPAN style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">gsettings set org.gnome.mutter.wayland xwayland-allow-grabs true</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">gsettings set org.gnome.mutter.wayland xwayland-grab-access-rules "['Vmplayer']"</SPAN></P><P></P><P>This didn't work though. It does do the trick for Virtualbox. Perhaps a look at their source can help.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:38:07 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Grab-keyboard-on-wayland-gnome3/m-p/2287420#M28701 yarlz 2020-03-18T12:38:07Z