On Sat, 13 May 2017 19:08:01 -0400, you wrote: > OS: > oi hipster latest updates as of yesterday > Hardware: > HP xw8600 workstation 2x Xeon 5470 3.33ghz - 32 GB ram > 3 matched sets of disks in mirror configuration. (including rpool) > 4 TB total space > >I jumped from oi 151_9 to hipster about 1.5 mnths ago. I was running >6 Vbox vms that I cp'ed over to the hipster install but could never >get Vbox installed to run them. > >2 days ago, thanks to Jim K and who ever may have helped with his >patches for Vbox pkgs from their site, I now have a running >Vbox-5.0.28 and have fired up the 6 vms. > >vms are 2 gentoo linux, 2 debian linux, 2 oi-hipster > >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. > >I could really use some input regarding how to go about isolating the >cause and fixing it. > >Two other thing with possible relevance is (1) that I use xbindkeys on all >the OS's and have for yrs including on OI. > >(Xbindkeys is little program that allows you to see key combos to >start almost anything, run specific commands and etc.) > >Used xbindkeys for several years on OI pre hipster and now on hipster. > >I use it with guile which means the config file is in a kind of lisp. >That two has been the case for several years including on OI pre >hipster. > >And (2) I did just do an update yesterday... just so happens that I >just did get the vms running at the same time so hard to say if that >would have any bearing.
By default, the right Ctrl key is assigned to the VBox "Host" key, and totally captured by VBox whenever a VM window has the focus. The left Ctrl key should behave as usual. https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#idm8607 HTH -- Regards, Kees Nuyt _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
