On gnome you can modify this behavior with the gnome-tweak-tool in the Window section. I changed the Window-Action key from "ALT" to "Super". I faced the same issues with the Layout-software EAGLE on Windows in VirtualBox. Am 09.07.2016 um 17:04 schrieb Bruno Widmann via arch-general: > Try some other window manager, that way you can find out if it's gnome's wm > which is causing the problem. Personally i'm using fvwm, and everything in > my windows vboxes is working fine. Haven't tried photoshop though... > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Klaus Doblmann M.A. <klaus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 2016-07-09 13:18, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 12:57:19 +0200, Klaus Doblmann M.A. wrote: >>>> I'm having troubles getting the ALT-key to work properly in VirtualBox >>>> as a modifier in applications like Photoshop for things like the clone >>>> tool, it isn't recognised as the ALT-key. >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> perhaps the used version of photoshop does work better when using wine. >>> Wine is as easy to use as vbox, it doesn't require graphical desktop >>> sharing by VNC and doesn't require SAMBA to share files or something >>> similar, that is needed by other virtual machines. >>> >> >> Hi Ralf, >> >> Thanks for your reply. I'm very familiar with Wine, however I can't even >> get past installing the Creative Cloud application which works as a >> hub/installer for the main apps. Some people report success on running >> Photoshop on Wine with a lot of tinkering but some of these reports seem >> to use unlicensed versions... ;) >> >> The whole solution to my problem should be rather easy - SOMETHING >> messes with the Alt key on the linux side - it's just a matter of >> finding out what... ;) >> >> Klaus >> >
