I upgraded my vmware workstation to version 6.5 running on Ubuntu 8.10. All was well except that on the Guest, the following keys were doing their own Bob-Rebel style:

• Arrow keys (up, down,left,right)
• Delete button
• Print Screen (PrtSc) button, in my lotus notes client deleted a selected document - huh?!?
• and probably others as well
  

Well, did some digging around and found the solution: I shutdown my VM, opened my terminal and entered the following:

Note, that will solve for the current user only. If you want it to be applied to the whole VMware workstation configuration for all users then edit the main vmware config file and simply add the property 'xkeymap.nokeycodeMap=true'.
On starting up your VM a "Hint" will pop up and you can just ignore that.

Hope that helps!

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