kde4 Fedora 9 + vmware key board messed up

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 16:19 -0700, mark wrote:
> After I open a vmware console, the following keys dont work
> 
> -> ctrl
> -> shift
> 
> and lot of other keys.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/104635?tstart=0&start=15

> If I open firefox and type in any key in the address bar it crashes.
> 
> how to fix this?

Don't know if that's covered under the same bug. It doesn't happen to
me. With FF problems it's always worth trying it with add-ons turned off
('firefox -safe-mode').

poc