VirtualBox

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:
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.

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