How do I close the dialog bubbles

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Epsilon
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How do I close the dialog bubbles

Post by Epsilon »

I have tried clicking them, I tried searching google for a way to close them but all that shows up is to make dialog boxes never show up again. Not how to close the dialog bubbles.

For example I have "You ahve Auto capture keyboard option turned on..." and "The Virtual Machine reports that the guest OS supports mouse pointer integration..." at the top of the screen and there is an "x" box and a speech bubble with a cross through it, but I can't click them I tried pressing Host while trying to click them etc etc etc.

I just can't get rid of them and they have been stuck there for a day and there really starting to annoy me.
socratis
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Re: How do I close the dialog bubbles

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Epsilon wrote:there is an "x" box and a speech bubble with a cross through it, but I can't click them
I'm not sure I follow what you mean "can't click them"? Is perhaps the mouse already captured?

You should "sneak" on them, don't let the VM get the mouse focus first. And you need to click on the speech bubble with the cross (Image) to never have that specific dialog shown again. If you click on the "Image" it will close it this time only, next time that you encounter the same situation, the specific warning will show up again.
Epsilon wrote:I tried pressing Host while trying to click them etc etc etc.
What you need to make sure is that the guest does NOT have the focus: "Image", or "Image", or "Image".
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Epsilon
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Re: How do I close the dialog bubbles

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After restarting the VM a couple of times I was able to click on them. Just seems like it was a bug.
socratis
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Re: How do I close the dialog bubbles

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Not the easiest thing to get it right, yes. A bug, no. ;)
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