Comment 222 for bug 195982

The behavior I saw before shift, ctrl stopped working was that all keyboard events and the mouse state were captured. The mouse moved, but stayed as the guest OS's mouse icon (vs Kubuntu's). I could not get to a local console and had to remotely kill the vmplayer process to get back any control. I also tried "export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes" in /usr/bin/vmplayer, which seemed to make the problem happen less frequently, but it still happens.

I'm using Natty and VmWare player 3.1.4 build-385536