Hello Tom, On 07.08.2015 16:56, Tom McArthur wrote: > I finally had time to test this. Moving each app to the other screen > created mass confusion in my brain! I had to think about every > interaction with my computer because everything was in a new location. > > Yes, the guest is full-screen. No, swapping screens did not help. The > laptop screen was the primary one in both tests. The problem happened > with both keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-J) and text expansion. For example, I > have Autokey installed in my Linux host, and Breevy installed in my Win7 > VM. Both have a text expansion configured for my house number - when I > type 1234, both apps replace that with 1234 Main Street. With both > configured for the same shortcut (such as 1234), what gets typed gets > mangled up, and so do the status of Alt and Ctrl within the VM.
I wonder whether disabling AutoKey will make a difference to what you are seeing? Regards, Michael > What I am expecting is that the host should never see the 1234 that gets > typed in the VM. Also, when I press Ctrl-J in the guest, the host should > never see the Ctrl-J keystroke. > > I don't know if this matters, but the Host Key Combo for the VM is Right > Ctrl + Right Alt. Also, when I type Ctrl-J, I always used the left Ctrl > key. I also disabled all of the keyboard shortcuts for the VirtualBox > manager. > > I am running version 4.3.28. I plan on installing 4.3.30 this weekend. > > Tom > > > On 06/17/2015 03:37 AM, Michael Thayer wrote: >> Hello Tom, >> >> On 16.06.2015 16:47, Tom McArthur wrote: >>> I am currently using version 4.3.28 on a Dell Precision M6500 running a >>> 64bit Mageia Linux host with one Win7 guest. >>> >>> My problem is that keyboard shortcuts behave erratically. For example: >>> >>> Problem #1: If the guest is displayed on an external monitor and all of >>> the host apps are on my laptop screen, then keyboard shortcuts get sent >>> to the host even though the guest has the focus. I can only get keyboard >>> shortcuts from within the guest to stay in the guest when I'm using a >>> single monitor/screen. >>> >>> Problem #2: Keyboard shortcuts in the guest often leave either Ctrl or >>> Alt in the down/selected mode. When this happens, I have to press both >>> Ctrl keys and both Alt keys to get the VM to recognize the current >>> keyboard state. This happens both when docked and when undocked. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >> >> No suggestions, but a couple of questions (not sure if they are all >> relevant, but whatever): are you running the guest in full-screen on >> the laptop screen? Do you see the same thing if you swap the screens >> (guest on external, host applications on the laptop)? Which of the >> two screens is the primary one? (run "xrandr" in a terminal to see.) >> What host key or key combination are you using? Are you using KDE on >> your Mageia host? >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael > -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
