Hey Greg, thanks for the tip! I obviously have been neglecting the RTFM time that Virtualbox requires as of late...Will definitely give that a try though. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:52:07PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Capturing/releasing the keyboard is described in I believe section > 1.8.2 of the virtualbox manual. To capture/release the keyboard, you > need to use the host key, which is your right control key by > default. If you're in the guest, press your right control key to > release the keyboard, and you should then be able to alt+tab to other > windows. When you focus the virtualbox guest window again, it will > capture your keyboard automatically, unless you disabled this. If you > want to use the control key in your guest, use the left control > key. So, ctrl+alt+f1 in the guest would be done using your left > control and alt keys. If you're running on a gnu/linux host, then > things get different as described in section 1.8.3 of the virtualbox > manual. If you're running on a gnu/linux host, then pressing > hostkey+f1 would enter ctrl+alt+f1 into the guest and so on. > > If this bothers you and you can't get used to it, you can remap the > host key to something as I mentioned earlier. Alternatively, if you > have a usb keyboard, and a place to put it, you can pass that keyboard > through to the guest, and not have to deal with the whole host key > thing. HTH. > > Greg > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:02:56PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > > Hey all, > > thanks for the replies! I test booted my installation while I was at work > > earlier today, and got what seemed to be a GDM login screen; alt+f2 appeared to > > have no effect, but this could be due to my having installed it within > > Virtualbox. Speaking of virtual machines, presuming the installation (s) were > > done within Virtualbox, how did you fully capture the keyboard so that you could > > do ctrl+alt+f1 and the like? I ask because I have never gotten this to work > > reliably. Also is there a kernel difference between the kernel that is used > > during installation and that which is used in the installed system? Just trying > > to rule out the possibility of unsupported virtual audio chipsets and the like. > > Thanks! > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- Igor -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
