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Grab on Keypress Might Interfere with Typing in Dialog Boxes

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If you set input preferences (Edit > Preferences > Input) to "Grab keyboard and mouse input on key press," you might be unable to enter text in some VMware Server dialog boxes.

Solution

 To work around this problem, use a different input preferences setting. This issue occurs only on Windows hosts.

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  • KB Article: 2093
  • Updated: Aug 14, 2009
  • Products:
    VMware Server
    VMware Workstation
  • Product Versions:
    VMware Server 1.0.x (Windows)
    VMware Workstation 5.x (Windows)