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Ticket #5684 (reopened defect)

Opened 8 months ago

Last modified 4 months ago

Lose access to cmd-H and cmd-Q if host key redefined -> Fixed in SVN

Reported by: vila Assigned to:
Priority: major Component: GUI
Version: VirtualBox 3.1.0 Keywords:
Cc: Guest type: other
Host type: Mac OS X

Description

As discussed in http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4866, if the host key is not bound to the left cmd key, cmd-H and cmd-Q cannot be used anymore.

This is a regression in 3.1.0 and was working fine in all previous versions.

Change History

2009-12-07 15:09:20 changed by vila

This has also been reported as http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5660

2009-12-07 15:21:27 changed by vila

And http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5634.

Another way to address this bug has been mentioned in http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1668 and http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4238 : allows shortcuts that needs to be passed to the host to be user defined. This may requires more work though.

2009-12-10 13:23:45 changed by poetzsch

  • summary changed from Lose access to cmd-H and cmd-Q if host key redefined to Lose access to cmd-H and cmd-Q if host key redefined -> Fixed in SVN.

Fixed in SVN & the fix will be available with the next minor release.

2009-12-17 15:54:15 changed by frank

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

2009-12-18 16:01:07 changed by vila

Thanks a lot for fixing that !

I still think it may be worth binding them to the host key so that only that key and any shortcut using it is reserved to vbox and since Christmas is so close...

2010-01-06 22:21:32 changed by bgarn83

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.

Can the CMD-tab functionality for mac be added? This is one of the most important key combinations for mac users (similar to alt-tab in windows). It enables a user to quickly switch in and out of the virtual environment very quickly.

2010-01-07 09:58:54 changed by poetzsch

  • status changed from reopened to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

Please use tickets which contains your request already. What you are looking for is in #1668.

2010-04-13 17:55:17 changed by gmarik

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.

Please do not implement this feature or implement it other way...

This cross-os-bindings break guest OS environment!

I think - if one wants to have cmd-Q, cmd-H working - use (RIGHT?-)cmd as host key - otherwise we break guest os environment

And, probably, customization for this behavior would solve the issue.

Thanks for your work! VBox - rox!


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