-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2016-07-16 13:53, Peter Bauer wrote: > 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. Thanks, I tried this as well - didn't help at all, nor changing the Window manager. But, in the end, I finally found a solution. Here's my workaround for the sake of posterity and so it shows up when others are looking for a workaround: Using the software-accessibility keyboard in Windows I was able to find out that the left Alt-key was always recognised as Alt+GR in Windows. And yes, I checked the keyboard settings, multiple times. I used Gnome-tinker-tool to set a few different Alt/Super-options on the Linux side - nothing helped, Virtualbox would override it and always send Alt+Gr... In the end I used a program that remaps keys in the Windows Registry and set it so the left Alt-key now correctly sends the Alt-key signal. This is what I used: http://lifehacker.com/5883003/the-best-key-remapper-for-windows Still would be interesting why Virtualbox sends these "funny" keymappings. And yes, I also tried different keyboards.... > > 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 >>> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXpiA2AAoJEJArGOi/1wqdJLYIAJoytIj/8cb3Pt8XdNi3YYCd lrZ5G4fsadEKKsPBqIPzCVXNp3v7zBI+743O/D+05jhkG0E++lrkalwmqNOF0u4D 0nQnL8e9MsXuU7fbE6KX06oZ0Tsj/MhLDZtY9yuhEws58MroYaepPcbb0MuPnzga QTmLuubx7/K5kFPfgOD+n8ZOrhlAj6I8UYKJd+oJfVN+WUIvv8I56F9IEDHLiEs2 G7w1dMfdYmaHXiTOq2GQEeDZVC18uhUbDMEWK2IbawMnji5IEouTqthCiWLOeMJd 6+OZsEf5nCJGkffiwKQ5kugrA1pYnhXamF0ThlveD54hzkVQwh8k9uI7MzTy50o= =VBWS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
