Yes, although I have a numpad, I can in fact hold down capslock inside a vbox guest, and use the speakup laptop keymap if I wanted to. For the record, this is in virtualbox 4.2.28. I said before I'm running 4.3.x, but I miswrote. Greg On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:17:41PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 03:47:31PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > Yes, vbox handles capslock in a weird way, but it does pass it > > through. > > > > So you've effectively been able to sue the Speakup laptop keymap inside later > Virtualbox versions? > > > When I initially use capslock in the guest, it doesn't > > work. However, subsequent presses of the capslock are passed through > > for me. Vbox does trap capslock so to speak, since the capslock state > > in the host is changed every time it is pressed while in the > > guest. This isn't a big deal for me though. > > > > Yeah, I've noticed this as well; it's a bit of a contrast to how VMware > Workstation handles capslock key presses. > > > > Greg -- 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
