Hi, I also have M4 and got it working like Fred said. I had to click the VMWare Fusion Menu - Settings - Select Mac Profile instead of Default Profile and uncheck "Enable Key Mappings", now all my special characters are working properly! All the other settings didn't work, only this one.
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Sent: Jan 29, 2025 12:35 PM
From: Christophe Greisberger
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
Well, still not working with 13.6.2
And, at least on my Silicon M4, the "Enable Mac OS Host Keyboard Shortcuts" trick does not work.
I use the German keyboard on both the host and the guest.
In fact, there is no difference when I tick it on or off (the dead keys don't work and the host shortcuts, like Cmd+Tab, continue working as is this setting has no effect).
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Sent: Jan 20, 2025 07:20 AM
From: Jyrki YliNokari
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
Hope this will be fixed soon. Workaround for using host shortcuts (like Command + Tab) is to use the fullscreen minibar, move mouse on top of it and then press the hotst shortcut
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Sent: Nov 07, 2024 07:20 AM
From: rrr rr
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
I struggled a bit to find the "host shortcuts" but I guess you mean the "Enable Mac OS Host Keyboard Shortcuts" checkbox on the Mac Host Shortcuts tab in the active Keyboard & Mouse profile.
Unchecking this certainly improves things in that keystrokes which previously did not register at all are now making it through from the host to the client, but not all of them produce the correct symbol (for example, shift and the key to the right of Å produces ' instead of ^, even though the unshifted key does now generate a dead ¨)
(I guess it's possible that some of the hacks I tried before are still active and mix up things for me.)
A definite drawback is that it is now very hard to get out of a full-screen client.
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Sent: Nov 05, 2024 05:14 AM
From: Frédéric Hardy
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
Hi !
In my case, the keys come back after having disabled "host shortcuts" checkbox in VM preferences. But it is a workaround, because it is very annonying to not be able to switch to a host application using command-tab…
Best regards, Fred.
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Sent: Oct 26, 2024 01:51 AM
From: Sta Koul
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
Just noticed this thread while I started another discussion. Have the same with greek language. I do not know if it happened with 13.6 or 13.6.1 (I think I had installed 13.6 and then got notification for 13.6.1 update). In any case, my issue is that I cannot use accented letter in windows (windows 10 intel, windows 11 arm) when the host keyboard is greek as well.
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Sent: Oct 21, 2024 03:55 AM
From: Frédéric Hardy
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
Hi! Same problem here with "`" with Linux Fedora as guest mapped with French macintosh keyboard: "`" and according "£" are dead :/, the according keyboard event seems not to be received by guest. Hope a fix will be quickly available because it is very annoying.
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Sent: Oct 16, 2024 02:13 PM
From: Carlos Carrascón
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
I have the same problem,
I'm using Fusion 13.6.1 in my MacBook Pro; with Spanish keyboard in my host, keys like [ { ^ won't work with Spanish keyboard in my guest machines.
As Erik said in his message all keys work fine changing the host keyboard layout to any other language. This issue also began for me when i updated to version 13.6, everything was working fine for me before that.
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Sent: Oct 13, 2024 07:18 AM
From: Erik Maaloe
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, it is correct that you can get accented characters by switching to US international keyboard. If you can find them without having the physical keyboard layout in front of you, which is a bit difficult. And then you don't have the special Danish characters like æ, ø and å. And many other characters are in other positions, again difficult to find without the physical keyboard layout.
But switching between keyboards is an interim solution, however awkward and slow.
And it did work in Fusion 13.5 and before, so it is a bug introduced in Fusion 13.6. And not fixed in 13.6.1.
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ErikM
Long-time VMware user
Original Message:
Sent: Oct 12, 2024 02:51 PM
From: Technogeezer
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
The VMware Tools version isn't going to matter, since there's no keyboard driver present there. Windows will use a standard Microsoft keyboard settings.
Some thoughts:
For Linux guests, see what keyboard mappings are available and see if they're handling the "dead" keys to generate a character.
For Windows, I performed an experiment. My default keyboard is set to the standard US English keyboard. I couldn't get the accented characters to work. I then installed the US International keyboard and switched to it. Now keystroke combinations such as "`+e" generate the accented character.
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- Paul (technogeezer)
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Sent: Oct 12, 2024 12:16 PM
From: Erik Maaloe
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
My problem has not been resolved with the VMware Fusion release 13.6.1. The keys ´`¨^~ (and maybe more) are still dead in my quest operating systems. I still cannot combine ´ and e to get é, among others. In Windows I have installed VMware Tools 12.4.5 (the latest version I think).
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ErikM
Long-time VMware user
Original Message:
Sent: Oct 06, 2024 08:02 AM
From: Erik Maaloe
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
I have a similar problem with a Danish keyboard. I cannot enter for instance non-Danish letters in my Fusion guests like é or ö which I normally do by first pressing ´ and then e (or ¨+o). Here in my Mac host it works, but both in my Windows 11 guest and my Ubuntu 24.04 guest the results are only e and o, not é and ö.
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ErikM
Long-time VMware user
Original Message:
Sent: Sep 20, 2024 03:40 AM
From: rrr rr
Subject: Dead keys on host system prevent VMware guest from receiving keystrokes at all
I am running VMWare Fusion on MacOS with a Swedish keyboard. Since some time back, it appears that the dead keys on my keyboard don't register in the clients I run in VMware at all (these include ~, ^, `, and ´ which are physically between + and backspace on the numbers row, and to the right of å on the next row). For example, running xev in Debian 12 reveals that no event arrives when I press these keys in the guest OS.
This is rather crippling, as several of these characters are crucial for scripting (try to grep without ^, or opening ~/Desktop without ~)
I have an external USB keyboard which exhibits the additional symptom that the key to the left of Z generates § instead of < in the guest but this works correctly on the laptop's built-in keyboard so should probably be regarded as tangential.
I recently switched from an Intel Mac to a new M3 one so I can say with some confidence that the host architecture does not seem to matter.
If I install the English ABC keyboard and switch the host to use that, the dead keys start to work inside the VMware client, i.e. the keystrokes finally reach the client and work as expected. But this obviously requires me to install a second keyboard, switch to it, and then remember to switch back when I move the cursor to another window outside of VMware.
It was rather hard to find this forum in the first place; I hope this is an acceptable way to submit a bug report for this product.