Few keyboard buttons not working in WinXP guest

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GazCamp3r
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Few keyboard buttons not working in WinXP guest

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Hi there. Im new on this forum, and new to the virtualbox. I have a Win XP VirtualMachine on Ubuntu. I have a Hungarian button layout, and 2 character is missing. When I press the 'Ű', and the 'Ő' buttons, nothing happens. If i switch to US layout, still nothing happens. In the device manager the winxp says, that normal Hungarian 101/102 button PS2 keyboard, but i cant get this two button to work. I think that these 2 buttons would be some kind of (, or / character. Every other key working, but this two are not... Can you give me some tip maybe?

Thanks for advance
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Re: Few keyboard buttons not working in WinXP guest

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GazCamp3r wrote:I have a Hungarian button layout
Host? Guest? Both? From my experience, the alternative keyboard layout has to be installed on the guest for things to work.
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Re: Few keyboard buttons not working in WinXP guest

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socratis wrote:Host? Guest? Both? From my experience, the alternative keyboard layout has to be installed on the guest for things to work.
Both have Hungarian layout. The interesting thing is that, when i log in from the debian graphic interface, and check the previews for the Virtual Machines, the key are working. But when I log directly to the machine with TIghtVNC, from Win 10, or OSX, than they dont.

How can I install the layout?
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Re: Few keyboard buttons not working in WinXP guest

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You sort of left out the detail about the VNC part.
GazCamp3r wrote:when i log in from the debian graphic interface, and check the previews for the Virtual Machines, the key are working.
GazCamp3r wrote:How can I install the layout?
The layout is installed since it is working in its most basic test case. What's not working is if you do it via VNC. I would search for "VNC keyboard mapping". Most of the results returned have to do with the VNC configuration on the VNC server-side.
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Re: Few keyboard buttons not working in WinXP guest

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socratis wrote:You sort of left out the detail about the VNC part.
GazCamp3r wrote:when i log in from the debian graphic interface, and check the previews for the Virtual Machines, the key are working.
GazCamp3r wrote:How can I install the layout?
The layout is installed since it is working in its most basic test case. What's not working is if you do it via VNC. I would search for "VNC keyboard mapping". Most of the results returned have to do with the VNC configuration on the VNC server-side.
So again... cause I dont unterstand any of this :(

We have a Debian for server, and it has Virtualbox. It hosting a WinXp Virtual machine, and on this WinXP there is TigerVNC server installed, so we can use it from outside. You say, that the problem is in TigerVNC? Casue I dont see any keyboard mapping options in it.
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Re: Few keyboard buttons not working in WinXP guest

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GazCamp3r wrote:You say, that the problem is in TigerVNC? Casue I dont see any keyboard mapping options in it.
You don't see any keyboard mappings in VirtualBox, so why do you think it is VirtuaBox's problem?

All I said was to search for "TigerVNC keyboard mapping". This time I've included the search link and made it specific to TigerVNC.
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