VirtualBox

Ticket #784 (reopened defect)

Opened 9 months ago

Last modified 1 month ago

Keyboard focus lost when minimizing and restoring virtualbox window

Reported by: whoisrich Assigned to:
Priority: major Component: other
Version: VirtualBox 1.5.0 Keywords:
Cc: Guest type: other
Host type: other

Description

Both the host and guest are Windows XP, I have not tried any other O/S.

Steps to re-create:

1. Start guest O/S and open notepad.

1. Single click virtualbox in the taskbar to minimize.

2. Single click virtualbox in the taskbar to restore.

3. Try and type something in the guest O/S notepad.

Things to note:

The problem seems to be that when the window is restored, the keyboard focus is on the virtualbox window rather than the guest. This can be confirmed by pressing ALT which activates the keyboard shortcuts for the virtualbox menu.

To regain focus you have to press ALT twice or click somewhere on the host O/S and then click back into the guest O/S.

I believe this to be a defect as using the minimize icon or minimizing by right clicking virtualbox in the taskbar, does not cause the problem.

Change History

01/02/08 16:54:48 changed by whoisrich

This is still an issue in Virtualbox 1.5.4.

03/26/08 15:01:41 changed by frank

Please try again with VirtualBox 1.5.6.

03/26/08 15:30:15 changed by whoisrich

Still an issue with VirtualBox 1.5.6

04/26/08 22:23:52 changed by hege

Vista host, XP guest.

VBox 1.5.6 constantly fails to capture/release keyboard. Sometimes partially, so alt-gr does not work for example.

05/02/08 22:43:12 changed by hege

Seems to be finally fixed in 1.6.0. Yay.

05/02/08 22:53:31 changed by sandervl73

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

05/08/08 20:10:14 changed by whoisrich

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.

Ive upgraded to 1.6.0 and this problem has NOT been fixed.

Open notepad, type something, minimize and maximize the window using single clicks on the taskbar, then try to type and it will not work as focus is on the virtualbox frame and not on the guest o.s. within.

Re-opening the ticket.

05/09/08 16:16:20 changed by hege

Yup it seems it isn't completely fixed. It does occur a lot less with me though. I have no idea if there was even any fixes made in 1.6.0, but I would suppose so? Or then it was a side effect of something.

06/23/08 19:03:46 changed by whoisrich

This is still an issue in Virtualbox 1.6.2

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