Virtualbox ignores CTRL key if "Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed" option is enabled under Mouse preferences !

[Andy Drop]

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

At least for the combination of Ubuntu 8.10 and Virtualbox-OSE 2.0.4 i can reproduce the following behavior evry time:

If under the (Ubuntu) settings for the mouse i activate "find pointer" (Show position of the mousepointer whe CTRL key is pressed), then no CTRL-<key> is handed to my Windows2000 Guest in the virtualbox.

For example: An CTRL-C arrives as a simple C, So cut and paste controlled by keyboard is effectively not available.

Update: Also can be reproduced with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and VirtualBox-OSE 3.1.6

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Do you have the same problem with other Qt/KDE applications, like e.g. "Konsole"? Does Ctrl-C arrive there correctly?

I could imagine, that this is a bug with the "find pointer" feature and not virtualbox-ose by itself.

[Andy Drop (andydrop)]

Hi Daniel,

> Do you have the same problem with other Qt/KDE applications, like e.g.
> "Konsole"? Does Ctrl-C arrive there correctly?

Yes, it does. I just re-checked it in several applications including
konsole. The only app i found misbehaving was virtualbox-ose.

>
> I could imagine, that this is a bug with the "find pointer" feature and
> not virtualbox-ose by itself.

My intuition tells me the same, but the only programm i could
reproduce the bug in was virtualbox.

Andy

[Andy Drop (andydrop)]

> Does Ctrl-C arrive there correctly?

Yes, it does. I just re-checked it in several applications including konsole. The only app i found misbehaving was virtualbox-ose.

> I could imagine, that this is a bug with the "find pointer" feature and not virtualbox-ose by itself.

My intuition tells me the same, but the only programm i could reproduce the bug in was virtualbox.

[Casiopeia (casiopeia)]

I can see the problem also on Ubuntu 8.04 with
. citrix XenApp Version 11.0 and
. VirtualBox 2.2.2

However, thanks to information here, I got a workaround: Disable the 'find pointer'-feature

[Peter Sabaini (peter-sabaini)]

Same here. Host is Ubuntu 9.04, guest is Xubuntu 9.04.

[gorec2005 (gorec2005)]

Linux oleg 2.6.31.5-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Fri Oct 23 00:05:22 EDT 2009 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ GNU/Linux

Mandriva up to time, gnome, when connect from winxp over ssh(putty)+Xming server all work ok,but when i run konsole(kde-app) - have same from 1 post (CTRL-C arrives as a simple C, So cut and paste controlled by keyboard is effectively not available.) ...

[levu (levu)]

here the same, Ubuntu 9.10 as host and several systems as hosts (e.g. WinXP, Ubuntu 8.10, 9.10)

[David Fraser (davidf)]

Confirming by popular report - the same on Ubuntu 9.10 host.
virtualbox-ose may be different because it specifically traps Right-Ctrl as the focus-grabber key

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for posting this bug.

Virutalbox-ose & Ubuntu have undergone numerous updates. Please update and repost with detailed error report.

[Kirill Müller (krlmlr)]

The behaviour hasn't changed.

Ubuntu 11.04, Virtualbox 4.1.2-73507~Ubuntu~natty from PPA, Windows 7 guest. Ctrl+C in guest works if and only if showing the position of the mouse pointer is disabled.

[Gregg Coleshill (gcoleshill-p)]

I have this same problem with Teamviewer (Ubuntu 16.04 host, any client). I have tried selecting and de-selecting 'send remote key combinations' to no noticeable effect.

I have also found that disabling 'show location of pointer' either through gnome-tweak-tool or gconf via cli disables the ctrl key almost entirely in the host OS,
ctrl-c (copy),
ctrl-v (paste),
ctrl-a (select all)
ctrl-s (save)
shift-ctrl-s (save as)
shift-ctrl-e (export)
for example, do not work in any application at all afaik

....but oddly
shift-ctrl-up/down (switch workspace)
does work.