You might find that some keyboard shortcuts for the VMware Remote Console Firefox browser plugin don’t work in Ubuntu as they do on other Linux distributions (Ubuntu version 8.10, the Intrepid Ibex).
After hours of irritation, of not being able to release the input by pressing the default Ctrl + Alt buttons, I finally found a solution to it. Thanks to this website for it, though its problem seemed slightly different, it did the work for me.
The trick is to put this line into the ~/.vmware/config file.
Create it if it does not exist and add the following line:
xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
That should do the trick, and all the keys should work fine now! Even escaping or releasing the input and thus, no messy reboots to save yourself.
