Why cant I capture mouse in Vbox?

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noelc
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Why cant I capture mouse in Vbox?

Post by noelc »

Subject is self explanatory I guess. Not sure why but I can no longer capture the mouse within VB. I used to just clicked within Vbox and got an option to capture or cancel. Pressing capture usualy workrd "Host Key uncaptured" now even when I press capture nothing? Just the same dialog box every time I click in Vbox?

Can anyone help?
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Re: Why cant I capture mouse in Vbox?

Post by Sasquatch »

It might be better to click on the checkbox so the dialog will never come up. It's in the VirtualBox FAQ, it can cause issues with mouse captures.
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