Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 10 years ago
#8383 closed enhancement
Need option to disable automatic keyboard capturing — at Initial Version
Reported by: | Timwi | Owned by: | |
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Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.4 |
Keywords: | keyboard control | Cc: | |
Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Windows |
Description
At the moment, the behaviour of VirtualBox is frustrating in the following way:
- Press the keyboard-capture key to uncapture the keyboard
- Press Alt-Tab to switch to another app
- Press Alt-Tab to switch back to VirtualBox.
Expected behaviour: I expect to get back to the same state that I was in.
Actual behaviour: VirtualBox captures the keyboard unwantedly. I have to consciously realise that it is VirtualBox that I Alt-Tabbed to and uncapture the keyboard before I can alt-tab away from it again.
Suggested fix: Never capture the keyboard automatically. Only ever capture the keyboard when the user explicitly presses the keyboard-capture key. If the current behaviour (automatic capturing) is desirable, by all means keep it as default, but add an option to disable it.