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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="mouse-capture">
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| 4 | <title>Configuring Automatic Mouse Capturing</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | By default, the mouse is captured if the user clicks on the
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| 9 | guest window and the guest expects relative mouse coordinates at
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| 10 | this time. This happens if the pointing device is configured as
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| 11 | PS/2 mouse and the guest has not yet started the Oracle VM VirtualBox
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| 12 | Guest Additions. For instance, the guest is booting or the Guest
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| 13 | Additions are not installed, or if the pointing device is
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| 14 | configured as a USB tablet but the guest has no USB driver
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| 15 | loaded yet. Once the Guest Additions become active or the USB
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| 16 | guest driver is started, the mouse capture is automatically
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| 17 | released.
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| 18 | </p>
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| 19 | <p>
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| 20 | The default behavior is sometimes not desired. Therefore it can
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| 21 | be configured as follows:
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| 22 | </p>
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| 23 | <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> GUI/MouseCapturePolicy <varname>mode</varname>
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| 24 | </pre>
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| 25 | <p><varname>mode</varname> is one of the following:
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| 26 | </p>
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| 27 | <dl>
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| 28 | <dlentry>
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| 29 | <dt>
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| 30 | <codeph>Default</codeph>
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| 31 | </dt>
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| 32 | <dd>
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| 33 | <p>
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| 34 | The default behavior as described above.
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| 35 | </p>
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| 36 | </dd>
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| 37 | </dlentry>
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| 38 | <dlentry>
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| 39 | <dt>
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| 40 | <codeph>HostComboOnly</codeph>
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| 41 | </dt>
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| 42 | <dd>
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| 43 | <p>
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| 44 | The mouse is only captured if the Host Key is toggled.
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| 45 | </p>
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| 46 | </dd>
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| 47 | </dlentry>
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| 48 | <dlentry>
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| 49 | <dt>
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| 50 | <codeph>Disabled</codeph>
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| 51 | </dt>
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| 52 | <dd>
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| 53 | <p>
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| 54 | The mouse is never captured, also not by toggling the Host
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| 55 | Key
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| 56 | </p>
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| 57 | </dd>
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| 58 | </dlentry>
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| 59 | </dl>
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| 60 | <p>
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| 61 | This is a per-VM setting.
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| 62 | </p>
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| 63 | </body>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | </topic>
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