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 VMWare Workstation does not intercept desktop global shortcut correctly on Linux

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FishBone EarthKhan posted Jun 13, 2025 11:36 AM

Hello!

I'm running VMWare Workstation on Linux. For example, when I press "WIN" button, the Application Launcher on my Linux host and the Start menu in Windows guest pops up the same time. I have to force "Ignore global shortcut" to workaround it.

The Desktop Environment is KDE. 

Thanks!

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Broadcom Employee Ian Forbes  Best Answer

Please see: https://community.broadcom.com/vmware-cloud-foundation/question/wayland-support

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Broadcom Employee Ian Forbes

This will be resolved in the next release of WS.