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make virtualbox not capture a spesific function keys
Posted: 20. Apr 2021, 13:32
by Meltinglava
I have a foot pedal that is bound to F24 (like F12 but not on most keyboards) and I use F24 as a Push to Talk key on Discord and other programs. My problem is that when Virtualbox captures my keyboard, it also captures that key. Then I start talking to noone as Discord cant recognicze that the key is pressed. Is there any way to make vbox not capture that spesific key?
Thanks in advance.
Re: make virtualbox not capture a spesific function keys
Posted: 20. Apr 2021, 13:53
by scottgus1
I believe there is no way to do that. I haven't seen any command in the Virtualbox manual that could block a key.
Tapping the Host key (default is Right Ctrl, see the lower right of the VM window) releases the keyboard from the VM.Then all keys go to the host until the VM window has focus again. Maybe that would help? Or a custom script that catches F24 in the VM and sends a signal to the host OS (see vboxmanage guest property get/set) to make another F24 on the host?
Re: make virtualbox not capture a spesific function keys
Posted: 20. Apr 2021, 14:02
by Meltinglava
scottgus1 wrote:Tapping the Host key (default is Right Ctrl, see the lower right of the VM window) releases the keyboard from the VM.Then all keys go to the host until the VM window has focus again. Maybe that would help?
This will not work. I need to be able to type in my VM while talking.
scottgus1 wrote:Or a custom script that catches F24 in the VM and sends a signal to the host OS (see vboxmanage guest property get/set) to make another F24 on the host?
Going to try this.
Re: make virtualbox not capture a spesific function keys
Posted: 20. Apr 2021, 16:37
by scottgus1
I missed this part, sorry:
Meltinglava wrote:F24 as a Push to Talk key
IF PTT requires F24 to be in the host the whole time while you are talking, neither of these ideas will work. You'll need another way to PTT while a VM is active, or another device to talk on so the VM focus doesn't matter.