#16150 closed defect (fixed)
Cmd-Tab broken between builds 111660 and 111724 => Fixed in SVN
| Reported by: | Socratis | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.8 |
| Keywords: | Cmd-Tab | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
Host: Mac
Using Cmd-Tab in a guest (let's say Win, OSX) used to act as a Win/Cmd/Super-Tab shortcut key within the guest. That behavior changed between builds 111660 and 111724. Now Cmd-Tab "stays" in the host, i.e. switches between apps in the host. Not sure if it is intentional or not.
Change History (9)
comment:1 by , 8 years ago
comment:2 by , 8 years ago
I experience the same problem
Virtualbox 5.1.10 r112026 (Qt5.6.2)
Host macOs Sierra 10.12.1
Guest Win10 Version 1607
comment:3 by , 8 years ago
Should be fixed in the most recent Mac OS X test build (5.1 >= 112105). The problem is that moc does not warn if it doesn't find a header file. As a result of an unrelated change, a macro which was supposed to be defined was undefined (value 0) and an expression which depends on this value was incorrectly evaluated and incorrect code was generated (missing some Qt signals).
comment:5 by , 8 years ago
| Summary: | Cmd-Tab broken between builds 111660 and 111724 → Cmd-Tab broken between builds 111660 and 111724 => Fixed in SVN |
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Thanks for confirming!
comment:7 by , 8 years ago
I'm a little confused as how to expect VirtualBox to behave. The fix also affects how it works with Windows as the host.
Before this fix, I would start VirtualBox, launch my Windows 7 guest and then press HostKey+Del to send the CTRL-Alt-Del command to the guest.
After this fix, I start VirtualBox, launch my Windows 7 VM, press HostKey once and then press HostKey+Del to send the CTRL-Alt-Del command to the guest.
I have always done the first thing for the last couple of years, but with 5.1.12 it have been switched to the other way. Can this be changed somewhere in the settings, so it works as it did before? Can't seem to find where I need to do the change.
comment:8 by , 8 years ago
Seems that VirtualBox 5.1.20 have fixed my problem (see comment 7), so now HostKey-Del works again, without first having to press HostKey once. I'm happy :)
comment:9 by , 8 years ago
@AndDK
No, it wasn't 5.1.20, it was 5.1.12 as you can see a couple of posts above yours. Do you mean that something changed between 5.1.18 and 5.1.20?
Aha! I think I found the underlying reason. The keyboard is not captured when switching to the VM with build 111724. At least its state shows as uncaptured in the icon on the bottom-right corner, if you switch focus to the VM either via the mouse or the keyboard (Cmd-Tab on the host). So, if you press once the host key (default LeftCmd) and then Cmd-Tab, it works as in previous versions.