![]() I would then use right-command as the Windows/Super key as it is at present, to open the START menu in the guest OS or to do Windows-D to show the Desktop or Windows-R to open the Run dialog. I would like to be able to ask VB to remap left-command to the Windows/Linux code for "Alt" instead of the code for the Windows/Super key. I then have to tap the Esc key to close the start menu before I can type into the guest application or option-tab to a different application in the guest. It seems this happens because VB changes the code coming from the JLoSB key to the code for the Windows key. I would like to change that, hence this post.Īnother problem is that when I hold down the JLoSB key and tap Tab, I get to the other processes running in the host and when I JLoSB-Tab back to the VB guest, I find that the START menu is open, because the guest had interpreted my long-press on the JLoSB key as a press on the Windows key. This means that I have to keep thinking "Am I talking to the guest or to the host" whenever I want to switch to another application running in the current OS. That is, I need to "option-Tab" between applications running in the guest. If I want to Alt-tab between processes running in the guest machine, I have to use the next key across, namely "option". When I am using VirtualBox and a guest operating system has keyboard focus and I want to switch to another application running in the guest OS, if I do what my fingers do automatically, namely JLoSB-Tab, this switches not to another application in the guest OS but to another application running on the host macos system. ![]() ![]() In macos, Windows and Linux, I can hold down JLoSB and tap the Tab key repeatedly to switch between running applications (called Alt-Tabbing in the Windows world.) In this post I'll call the key just to the left of the spacebar "JLoSB", short for "Just Left of SpaceBar". The "left-command" key is in the same position as the Alt key on a Windows computer's keyboard, namely just to the left of the space bar. I run a Windows 10 guest on this system (64-bit, 8G RAM), and I am in the process of setting up an Ubuntu Linux guest (64-bit, 8G RAM). ![]() I have specified the right-option key as the Host key for VBox, with the result that I can use right-option+f to go full-screen, right-option-p to Pause/UnPause the guest operating system, and so on. I am happily running Virtualbox 6.1.34 r150636 on a MacBook Prleft-o using the Big Sur version of macos (11.6.5) as the host OS (64-bit, 64G RAM). ![]()
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