Well, it seems like CTRL key presses should remain visible to applications regardless of whether the Locate Pointer feature is activated. The fact that enabling the Locate Pointer feature blocks keyboard events to some applications seems like incorrect behavior (a bug) that ideally should be corrected.
You are correct that making the keys different would be a workaround, and VirtualBox already has functionality to reconfigure the Host Key. Now that I've observed and diagnosed this problem I can work around it. The problem is that, the first time you try this combination of software, you don't know about the problem and as far as you can tell your system is trapped running the guest OS and your only option is to get the guest to power off, which does not work reliably, or to hard- reset your computer. This isn't very friendly. I guess, if the bug can't be fixed, my second choice would be to have Locate Pointer use a different key. My third choice would be to change the default Host Key setting in VirtualBox. -- Locate Pointer feature blocks VirtualBox host key https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627120 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
