[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#459434: virtualbox-ose: host key does not seem to work

[David Bremner]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.5.4-dfsg-1
Severity: normal


I have installed virtual-box-ose modules using module assistant.
I created a machine, and installed freedos on it.

When I click in a running window, it tells me it is capturing my mouse, 
and the get it back, I should press the host key.  The current host key 
is listed as right control. However, once it enters capture mode, the 
keyboard seems dead in the virtualbox window and there is no response 
to the host key.  I am using a lenovo thinkpad x61s; xev says 
I really have a right control key, and it has keysym Control_R.
This is all under KDE; I have to switch to a text console and kill -HUP 
virtualbox to get KDE responding again.

Interestingly, I can use right-control to put the virtualbox into 
capture mode. Which from a user perspective is a coma :-)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.105            add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                   2.7-5            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080104-1 GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.0.2-3          A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.4-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libidl0                 0.8.8-0.1        library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii  libqt3-mt               3:3.3.7-9        Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.13-1         Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6              4.3-20080104-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxalan110             1.10-3.1         Provides XSLT support for applicat
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.9-1        X cursor management library
ii  libxerces27             2.7.0-5          validating XML parser library for 
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.5-3        X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  virtualbox-os 1.5.4-dfsg-1+rocinante.3.0 VirtualBox modules for Linux (kern

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