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Quick mouse capturing question?

Posted: 24. Sep 2008, 06:03
by \\'\\\_
Hi all,

first post. long time vmw user - cannot believe how good virtual box is!

I have found it faster and better than vmw ever performed.

The only little thing I have found when working in windows XP sp2+ is that <alt>+Button1 does not work - the <alt> keypress is registered - ie you see the _'s appear in the menulists etc, and of itself Button1 works fine too..

But when I want to (for example) zoom out in Adobe CS3 with the Zoom tool selected, Button1 will zoom in but <alt> Button1 does nothing.

When I make the mouse a dedicated capture the problem is solved.

This also happens when you want to duplicate an object by selecting it with the <alt> key depressed and dragging off the duplicate. Once again with no result unless the mouse is dedicated capture...

I have done a bit of a search here and can't say if it is a problem since 2.0.2 does anybody relate>?

I am running on Gentoo:

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stardotstar@geko ~ $ uname -a
Linux geko 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9_geko_alpha1 #5 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 9 10:00:49 EST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
and running the 2.0.2 Sun Virtual Box for Linux Hosts.

All other systems are working fine including networking (bnridged and NAT) and USB etc.

Tia
Will

Posted: 24. Sep 2008, 12:28
by \\'\\\_
Thinking this might be something to do with X capturing the <alt>Click as window move or something? If that was the case I am sure that it has been canvassed.