I have run a variety of VMware desktop applications on a multitude of hosts, but recently I settled on Xubuntu with VMware Server for my work Windows XP instance.

Everything ran fine for a long time until all of a sudden keymappings went up the spout.  End did nothing, the keypad didn’t behave as expected, but worst of all the Windows Start key stopped working.  The last one was the worst, because I couldn’t get to use any keyboard shortcuts and I like keyboard shortcuts.

I fixed it using the following command:

echo ‘xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ > ~/.vmware/config

Everything is now working fine and I can only assume that a Xubuntu update caused an error/corruption somewhere.

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