[OpenIndiana-discuss] Peculiar behavior when start running vbox vms

[Kees Nuyt]

On Thu, 18 May 2017 10:27:49 -0400, you wrote:

>Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes:
>
>[...]
>
>> OK, getting to the chase:  In every one of those vms the Ctrl key on
>> std 104 key US keyboard does not work.  Needless to say such things as vim
>> and emacs suffer severely when Ctrl does not work.
>>
>> Even the xterms I use a lot, suffer with no capablility to for INT Ctrl-c, or
>> ^c.
>>
>> I'm guessing the main OS (oi-hipster) has in someway hijacked
>> exclusive use of CTRL key.  But I have no idea how to begin to fix
>> this.
>
> It turns out the above statement was right.  The way the HOST os
> hi-jacked the ctrl key:
>
> In the preference settings under: Preferences => hdware => mouse
>
> There is a check box at `Locate Pointer'
>   <show postition of pointer when control is pressed>
>
> I had it checked.  Unchecking that box will free the control key to work
> inside Vbox vms.
>
> I found this while googling on the problem where a linux user had the
> same problem and eventually discovered a solution that worked for me too.
>
>   https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=10226#p40593

Wow, that was a nasty one. I'm glad you could solve it.

-- 
Regards,

Kees Nuyt