Host Key and Keyboard don't work

[RegistrationSUCKS]

I am using VirtualBox 1.5.6 (not OSE) in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Beta as a host and Windows XP Pro as a guest. When I start VB the Host Key doesn't respond nor does the Keyboard (inside the guest).

I can get it to work if I disable "complex characters" in the language settings; that is the setting that enables SCIM.

The thing is I need Japanese input, so disabling it is not an option.

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Thanks.

PS registering for this forum was frustrating

[gzchenyin]

exactly the same thing happended on my laptop ( ubuntu 8.04 beta, virtualbox ose), after i install some updates last night.

[RegistrationSUCKS]

Currently, I only have two ways to get this to work, both kinda suck.

1. Disable complex characters in language support and restart X. This sucks because I might as well dual Boot.

2 I can run VB with:

ssh -XC localhost VirtualBox

This works too, but the performance suffers.

I hope this will be fixed in the release that goes with Hardy.

[gzchenyin]

preference->input
uncheck: auto capture keyboard

then it works.
cheers.

[RegistrationSUCKS]

This didn't help. It doesn't recognize the home key. Nor does the keyboard work.

[over_clox]

Try switching to another program and back to the VM; I get similar problems on XP host/guest and this seems to help sometimes.

[gzchenyin]

This didn't help. It doesn't recognize the home key. Nor does the keyboard work.

It really works in my case.
I use VB-OSE, maybe that is the difference.

[RegistrationSUCKS]

I'll try out the OSE, but I need USB support, so it will only serve as a troubleshooting data point.

Thanks for your info!

[chinese_ys]

I solved this problem in ubuntu 8.04 by installing scim-bridge-client-qt. You probably need a reboot after installing the new package.

[julien.fs]

Thanks chinese_ys, I was messing for a while with this issus, never realized it was because of SCIM.

problem solved by installing scim-bridge-client-qt