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Alternative keyboards in VBox

Posted: 13. Sep 2010, 23:14
by fhansen
I bought a MacBook Pro the other day and installed VBox and Windows 7 under the OS host. Then I added the guest additions under Windows. Everthing went smoothly except one item. The alternative keyboards are inactive under Windows. This means that I cannot enter the brackets and curly parantheses that I use all the time in Latex (the keyboard is Danish). What can be done?

Re: Alternative keyboards in VBox

Posted: 13. Sep 2010, 23:30
by Sasquatch
What characters to you get instead? Does providing the same layout or switching layouts in Windows help?

Re: Alternative keyboards in VBox

Posted: 14. Sep 2010, 07:44
by fhansen
I get no characters at all. Only a beep as if I did something not allowed.

Are there anybody out there that can help? It is a big problem to me as I use Tex everyday.

I noticed that the problem persists even if I change to US keyboard. The ALT-key does not give access to the alternative keyboard.