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Hi all,

I just wanted to know if someone else has experienced problems with deadkeys under the just released VBox 1.5. Seems I cannot write vocals with their graphical accent in spanish anymore (ej: áéíóú). Following the usual way I just get the normal vocal.

Also, and this is very weird, if I press ALT+F4 on the Guest, it gets captured by the host (offering to close the guest) but after cancelling the action with the VBox dialog provided I loose the keyboard control on the guest. The only workaround after that is restarting the Guest.

Thanks!

Just a few questions. Did you use VirtualBox 1.4.0 and if so, is this behaviour new in 1.5.0? If it is, could you try out all keys on the keyboard in the guest to see if they produce what they expect them to produce?

If you have only just started using VirtualBox, try changing your keyboard configuration inside the guest.

Thanks for your response.

I've upgraded from a previously working virtual machine with VirtualBox 1.4.

I've just tried the rest of the keys and they seem to be working fine. My keyboard configuration under the guest is: English (United States) / United States-International.

Regards,
Mauro.

And which keyboard configuration are you using in the host?

Which host system is that by the way?

Ubuntu Feisty.
Generic 105-key (Intl) PC / U.S. English International (with dead keys).

Thanks again.

plenque: see my private message.

VirtualBox 1.5.2 will contain a fix for this. Anyone else with keyboard issues in Linux hosts is welcome to add them onto the end of this thread or ticket 599 in the issue tracker.

The key combination Alt Click is also not passed from Linux Host to WinXP guest.

Allan

See http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... ght=hotkey for the last issue.

In the KDE guest Linux operating system where is VirtualBox installed do:

Control Center -> Desktop -> Windows Behavior -> Accions... --> Replace ALT key to META.


In Spanish:
Centro de Control -> Escritorio -> Comportamiento de la ventana
-> Acciones de ventana -> Tecla modificadora: (cambiar de ALT a META)


Enjoy!!

I had a similar problem with dead keys not working, using us-intl keyboard. It turns out that these don' t work with intl nor alt-intl variants, but do work fine with altgr-intl (ie, I changed my X keyboard layout, in my case using KDE)

Maybe you should try all variants in the locale you need and see if there is one that works.

What I wrote is wrong... It seems that for dead keys to work within the host, they must be disabled within the host.

It turned out that in the altgr-intl variant dead keys were not working within the host, so that's why they worked in the guest. They also work in the guest if I use a no dead-keys layout, such as us (default); they don't work when the host is using a layout with dead keys.

That is strange. I use 1.5.6 on Ubuntu 7.10 and have no problems with either host nor guest keyboard. I have US (intl) on both systems, Linux with dead keys, so if I type '"' (double quote) followed by 'e', it will result in 'ë' on both Linux and Windows. I do have the problem that the Winkey isn't passed to the guest correctly, it passes the Alt key. It used to work, so something on my system made it that way. Have to reinstall it anyway so it will be fixed when I'm done with it, I hope.

I just noticed the problem for the first time. I recently upgraded my Ubuntu host to 8.04 (kernel 2.6.24-17-generic), and VirtualBox to 1.6.0. In the guest I installed the guest additions 1.6.0.

If the keyboard capture is on (green arrow in status bar) the dead keys don't work. Not by themselves (e.g. to type a quote), and not combined with a letter (e.g. to type an ë).
If the keyboard capture is of (black arrow in status bar), and the guest windows has the focus, the dead keys do work (in a Windows guest that is, in an Ubuntu guest they still don't work).

Keyboard layout is US International (with dead keys).

Edit 05-08-2008:
VirtualBox versions 1.6.2 and 1.6.4 have the same problem. When are all these keyboard issues finally going to be fixed? This will drive me back to VMware server, once 2.0 is final (and I can use USB 2.0 in the guests).