VirtualBox

Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#917 closed defect (fixed)

Capslock, scroll-lock, numlock keys do not work. => Fixed in 1.5.4

Reported by: Grief-Crazed Father Owned by: Frank Mehnert
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 1.5.2
Keywords: capslock, scroll, numlock Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description

Six months - or possibly even longer - since the first report (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/350), capslock, numlock, and scroll-lock remain outside the realm of VirtualBox's capabilities - rendering it a novelty, not a true contender in the realm of virtual machines.

Surely, the Open Source Community can do better than this!? Let's get this silly bug quashed once and for al.

Change History (5)

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 16 years ago

Owner: set to Frank Mehnert
priority: majorminor
Status: newassigned

It is not that clear as you state here. The *lock keys work fine here so the statement remains outside of the realm of VirtualBox is not correct. And by the way, there was no further response to ticket #350.

Emulating of these keys is not that trivial as some might think because guest and host has to be synchronized. It seems that the keys work fine on Linux hosts but don't on at least some Windows host. We will look at this issue but I don't agree that this is a major issue.

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 16 years ago

Can you confirm that the lock keys work if you are using VBoxSDL (I assume your host is Window)?

cd \program files\innotek virtualbox
vboxsdl -vm <your vm name>

comment:3 by Frank Mehnert, 16 years ago

Hopefully fixed in SVN for the Qt GUI for Windows hosts.

comment:4 by Frank Mehnert, 16 years ago

Summary: Capslock, scroll-lock, numlock keys do not work.Capslock, scroll-lock, numlock keys do not work. => Fixed in 1.5.4

comment:5 by Frank Mehnert, 16 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed
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