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. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
