VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#2694 closed defect (fixed)

Re-mapped keyboard keys not recognized by VirtualBox => fixed in SVN

Reported by: gwr Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 2.0.6
Keywords: keyboard Cc: Gordon.Ross@…
Guest type: Solaris Host type: Solaris

Description

I normally use a keyboard that has the left "control" key in the bottom row, and a "caps lock" key in the "A S D F" row. I like having those two keys swapped, which the X server easily allows on Solaris (and others) via "xmodmap". However, when I use "xmodmap" to swap control/caps-lock, then VirtualBox apparently ignores the keymap changes, continuing to send the keys with their original key codes to the guest OS.

It would be better if VirtualBox used a technique like "rdesktop" (the Windows RDP client), where the key symbols from the X server are converted back to key codes, where those key codes may be different than the real (hardware) key codes.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Michael Thayer, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
Summary: Re-mapped keyboard keys not recognized by VirtualBoxRe-mapped keyboard keys not recognized by VirtualBox => fixed in SVN

This issue has already been fixed in the development version of VirtualBox, but it has not been ported back to the 2.0 series.

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