Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Gnome 3 Super key focus

Running Windows guest in a VirtualBox session can be complicated when the host is Gnome 3.

The "windows / superkey" keyboard shortcut is mapped strictly to the host, so the guest never catches it.  How do you then use the "windows" key in a Windows guest?

There are two very simple options:

1) If your keyboard has two "Windows" key, then the one on the right is not mapped to the Gnome 3 host by default.  It will be passed to the windows guest.

2) If you don't have two "Windows" keys, then you can use the windows key combination: Left Ctrl+Esc

The windows guest will interpret it as the "Windows" key.