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I'm a VMware user and far too often I use keyboard shortcuts while programming. However, this has proved to be quite distressing as sometimes the VMware gets hold of it and turns off / pauses (Ctrl+Z) the virtual machine.
Is there a way to disable keyboard shortcuts on VMware? Has anyone here ever found a workaround?
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vmware will keep the ctrl key pressed even if you change your keyboard. so you might think its a pc problem while its not. try getting a new keyboard/install it then press on the ctrl key repeatidly to unlock it.
Keyboard shortcuts could've stopped working because you took customizing your keyboard layout too far. In this case, resetting your keyboard to its default settings should fix the problem.
It's a bit like Windows-key lock mode. The only way to fix it is to restart the computer.
Select Window > Virtual Machine Library. Select a virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Library window and click Settings. Under System Settings in the Settings window, click Keyboard & Mouse. Type the keyboard shortcut to use to trigger the virtual machine.
I use AutoHotKey (are you running VMWare on Windows ?) to disable certain shortcuts. You can find this tool here:
http://www.autohotkey.com/
It's open source and I quite like it. Can be used for automation tasks, but you can also have it respond differently to different windows. With some AHK scripting, I think you should be able to fix your problem.
The site had got loads of tutorials too on writing handy scripts.
Good luck.
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If it is Ok for you - here's a bit of hacky solution which is very simple - just use ResHacker program to get rid of those annoying accelerators (they are defined as resources in vmware.exe).
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