running emacs inside vmware

running emacs inside vmware

[Jim Newton]

Does anyone have advise about running emacs inside vmware.
For one thing vmware treats ctl-alt special.
I have fixed this by changing the vmware hot key from shift-alt to ctl-shift-alt-win

I've turned off all short-cut keys I can find in KDE as well.

But there are other times when emacs simply gets so confused I have to kill it and restart.  I suspect some of the key combinations have been intercepted either by windows, wmware, or kde.

Any general advise from people who have tried to use this frustrating combination would be greatly appreciated.

Jim

Re: running emacs inside vmware

[Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka]

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Does this happen even in full-screen mode?

Also, if you installed vmware-tools, try the Unity mode.

Thanks,
Raj

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Jim Newton <jimka.velizy@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Does anyone have advise about running emacs inside vmware.
> For one thing vmware treats ctl-alt special.
> I have fixed this by changing the vmware hot key from shift-alt to
> ctl-shift-alt-win
>
> I've turned off all short-cut keys I can find in KDE as well.
>
> But there are other times when emacs simply gets so confused I have to
> kill it and restart.  I suspect some of the key combinations have been
> intercepted either by windows, wmware, or kde.
>
> Any general advise from people who have tried to use this frustrating
> combination would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jim
>



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Rajanikanth

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Re: running emacs inside vmware

[Jim Newton]

Hi Raj, thanks for the advise.  Yes it happens even in full-screen
mode.  

In the mean-time, i've tracked down more information.
When I press shift-alt-% for query replace, emacs still thinks
the alt is pressed, thus if I type 'p', (because I want to replace p with something), emacs hears alt-p, do display the previous query-replace
target.  :-(

This could also be a citrix issue.  It is the type of bug which citrix
has from time to time.

Jim

On Thursday, June 14, 2012 1:31:46 PM UTC+2, Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka wrote:
> Does this happen even in full-screen mode?
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> Also, if you installed vmware-tools, try the Unity mode.</div>
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> Thanks,</div>
> Raj
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> 
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Jim Newton <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jimka.velizy@googlemail.com" target="_blank">jimka.velizy@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:
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> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Does anyone have advise about running emacs inside vmware.
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> For one thing vmware treats ctl-alt special.
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> I have fixed this by changing the vmware hot key from shift-alt to ctl-shift-alt-win
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> I&#39;ve turned off all short-cut keys I can find in KDE as well.
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> But there are other times when emacs simply gets so confused I have to kill it and restart.  I suspect some of the key combinations have been intercepted either by windows, wmware, or kde.
> 
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> Any general advise from people who have tried to use this frustrating combination would be greatly appreciated.
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> 
> Jim
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> Rajanikanth
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