• Press CTR-ALT-. ( The . / ALT key on the numeric keyboard )
• On a laptop without numeric keyboard: CTRL-ALT-PrintScrn
  ( note: on my laptop that is: CTRL-ALT-Fn-PrintScrn )
• CTRL-ALT-INS is reported to work but, didn’t work for me
• Using VNC
  • Add the following lines to the VMWare .vmx config file:
    

     RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "TRUE"

     RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "5900"

     RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = ""

  • Restart Guest OS and connect with vncviewer to the screen of the Guest OS
  • Press F8 and choose from the menu ‘Send CTRL-ALT-DELETE’

There are more options, but these seem to me the best working.

ID 046d:08ad Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX

It seems that Ubuntu recently switched from V4L to V4L2 causing some trouble with some devices. Fortunately there is a solution:

sudo apt-get install ld.so.preload-manager

sudo ld.so.preload-manager /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so

alternatively (note the lib32. You need to set that on 64bit systems because Skype is still 32 bit ):

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so exec /usr/bin/skype

And now vlc, mplayer and kdenlive work perfectly:

• mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=320:height=240:device=/dev/video0
• vlc v4l:// :v4l-vdev=”/dev/video0″ :v4l-adev=”/dev/audio” :v4l-norm=3 :v4l-frequency=-1 :v4l-caching=300 :v4l-chroma=”" :v4l-fps=-1.000000 :v4l-samplerate=44100 :v4l-channel=0 :v4l-tuner=-1 :v4l-audio=-1 :v4l-stereo :v4l-width=320 :v4l-height=240 :v4l-brightness=-1 :v4l-colour=-1 :v4l-hue=-1 :v4l-contrast=-1 :no-v4l-mjpeg :v4l-decimation=1 :v4l-quality=100
• kdenlive works fine with default options

Links:

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam