hud steals alt key from within virtualbox sessions

[Alan Bell]

whilst working in a virtualbox guest session (other virtualisations are available and probably have the same thing going on) if I press alt then the HUD of the host pops up and steals the alt keypress even though that should be going to the guest operating system because I have not pressed the host key to give up control of my keyboard.

[Dawid Wróbel (dawidw)]

Let me elaborate on this one: not only the ALT key is stolen by unity, but also the Win (Meta key) and even the mouse pointer - so although you don't see the cursor, if you keep moving the mouse towards the left edge screen unity bar will eventually show up (if set to autohide). This basically renders virtualbox useless as it is now.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 806255, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.