[Solved] Disable VM From Starting When Using The Mouse

[BKJ1]

Is it possible to disable VM's from starting when navigating using the mouse? So when I left click on a VM I want nothing to happen as it stands now when I left click on a VM the VM starts. I am adding and removing machines all the time and when I left click on the VM I want to be able to click on a VM (have it not start) so I can adjust its settings. Yes I am aware that using the up/down keys is a work around but I want the old way back. System is Debian 5 testing/sid mix with virtualbox version 3.0.4 r50677.

[Perryg]

Quick question.
Do you have your mouse set for single click somewhere. On all of mine systems I must double click to start the VM and a single click simply selects it. Check out the mouse settings on the host.

Also when a mouse starts going bad (click is worn out) they act this way too. Just a thought.
As another work around you can right click on the VM and then select settings. Other than that I know of no way to stop the click from opening the VM.

[BKJ1]

@perryg: Nope I need to double click to open files/folders on my system but VB single click starts the VM. As for the mouse going bad this happens on all 3 of my systems. I am running Debian 5 with KDE4 and VB 3.0.4 r50677. What version of VB are you running? I know after an upgrade it started to do this but I can't remember which version it was that did it (been doing this for sometime now). Thanks for the right click option as this and the arrow keys are what I have been using but I really hate both alternatives!

[Perryg]

Wow!
I have to say this is the first time I have heard this one. The only think that I can thing of is to:
(1) look at the .virtualbox.xml and the machine.xml for any thnig about the mouse and if that does not work:
(2) Then you can try to uninstall the VBox program and then after a reboot install it again. Your machines should be picked up again with no problems, but as always backup! It is advisable to backup regularly anyway.

[Sasquatch]

This has nothing to do with VB itself, as I've seen it before with other users, and on my own system (while I don't even run KDE). The problem is your desktop manager, KDE. You're probably using some style that has this as a setting. Please use a different style. You can do that with the KDE settings, but the qtconfig-qt4 application can also do this. The latter is what I used before when it started misbehaving. Selecting a different theme will certainly solve this strange behaviour. It's strange that you only have it with VB and not with other applications. Probably because they don't have a double click feature like VB has.

[BKJ1]

@Sasquatch: Thanks for the heads up on the theme hint. Even though, I tried gnome and it did the same thing, after further digging into the theme settings I found the culprit and all is well now. Thank you all for your suggestions.

[Sasquatch]

I just remembered the name of the misbehaving Qt4 theme that I was using: Skulpture. I don't and didn't use KDE, so I had to change the theme settings with qtconfig-qt4, which you probably used too. Now I'm sure that there are other themes than Skulpture that has this misbehaviour. Glad I could push you in the right direction.