Comment 231 for bug 195982

Ok I see this issue is closed as its quite old. Is this particular issue tracked somewhere else?

I just upgraded my Ubuntu 16.04 system to Ubuntu 18.04.5 and this issue still exists for me.

what I'd like to be able to do is:
1. configure my keyboard on the host laptop to map "Caps Lock as an extra control key"
2. launch a vm in vmware player on the laptop
3. Use both the left and right shift keys inside any window on the host laptop.

The workaround of running "setxkbmap" does get around the issue somewhat. For me it does allow the right shift key to start working again. However, it doesn't fix everything. For example, I notice that I can no longer use a the Alt-F1 keyboard shortcut in IntelliJ IDEA. The only workaround I have found for this is to restart the entire laptop after using any vm in vmware player or just not use Alt-F1 keystroke.

I do recall having to do some keyboard mapping a long time ago so that IntelliJ could process Alt-F1 and not Ubuntu itself.

Does anyone know if Ubuntu 20.04 magically makes this issue go away?

One other thing I remembered. I had a similar but a little different issue some years ago with the "caps lock as extra control key" setting when using synergy. More details here:

https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/4658

AFAIK, that issue was never resolved either.