Unity captures <Alt> keypress even within VirtualBox although it shouldn't

[Zordid]

When within a virtual box, all keypresses belong to the virtual machine. To gain access to the host OS, you normally have to press the defined Host-key in virtual box.

E.g. if you switch windows within a virtual Windows OS inside Virtual box, your Alt-Tab directly goes to Windows.

Now, with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS a single <Alt> keypress which also MUST stay within VirtualBox instead opens the lenses menu search function.

It shouldn't. It's massive distractive and not the expected behavior.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,imgpng,mousepoll,vpswitch,resize,move,grid,gnomecompat,obs,snap,place,wall,regex,animation,session,workarounds,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Wed May 2 05:47:22 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-30 (1 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[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.

[ndMHcGFzqhcfQEAdTKmfxZqTbujWUyxE (ndmhcgfzqhcfqeadtkmfxzqtbujwuyxe-deactivatedaccount)]

daniel also marked the above mentioned bug as a duplicate. so save yourself the time and go straight to the source:

993011 [this bug] -> 806255 [link in daniel's post]-> 741869 [bug linked to from 806225]

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Or just click here --> bug 741869