-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, but I haven't managed to figure out all the details. Let me explain what I know so far, and maybe someone at Innotek will be kind enough to provide a more complete explanation instead of just saying that the explanation is too complicated and prone to error, and leaving it at that.
Under winxp as the host, I was able to play around in the gui interface, and figured out that alt+f to get into the file menu, followed by hitting i, got me into the input settings where you can change the hostkey. A bit of tabbing around and listening to what window-eyes was saying, allowed me to successfully change the hostkey to be the right alt key. Running "vboxmanage getextradata global enumerate", showed me that one of the keys defined was "GUI/Input/HostKey", and that its value was "165. So, from that, I know that in order to set the hostkey to right alt you'd do: vboxmanage setextradata global "GUI/Input/HostKey" 165 I ran showkey under gnu/linux, and tried doing some calculations using the values that showkey returned both in keycode mode, and in scancode mode for the right alt, but none of that worked out to 165. It's possible that codes returned for a key under windows and gnu/linux are different, but as far as I know, a scancode is a scancode, regardless of the OS used. I do stand to be corrected on that of course. So, your guess as to how to derive the value for a particular key, or combination of keys is as good as mine, for now at least. Hth. Greg On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 02:49:09PM -0400, Guy Schlosser wrote: > Hi all, is there a way to change the host key in the command > line? I'm totally blind, running Ubuntu 7.04 as the host, and the > GUI (because it's written with QT) does not speak, leaving me no way > of navigating the necessary GUI options to change this. Also, I'm > running it on a laptop that does not have a right control key. Any > help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks much in advance, > > > Guy > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGkp257s9z/XlyUyARAqPQAJ4w8LPyYsylV2UW8KA7XxbJCZq65ACg2WFa EYOxPEUc82FeGhVN7sHrq30= =l4yK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
