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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Am Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:23:20 -0800 |
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> schrieb Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>: |
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>> Completely off topic but what's the trick to free my mouse and |
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>> keyboard from the Vbox prison they seem to be in? I had to come to |
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>> another computer to send this message! |
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> By default you have to press the right Ctrl button; the exact button you have |
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> to press is displayed at the bottom right of the Virtualbox window. Doesn't |
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> Virtualbox tell you what to press when you first click into a guest window |
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> (unless you deactivate the popup)? After you install the guest additions you |
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> won't have to worry about that anymore though, since moving the cursor past the |
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> edge of windows' desktop boundaries releases it automatically. |
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>> Cheers |
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>> Mark |
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> HTH |
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> -- |
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> Marc Joliet |
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It did tell me but I had dismissed it - not deactivated it - and at |
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the time was in a long SP3 update and couldn't restart it. I kept |
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reading it as the Ctrl + right mouse button and just didn't get it. |
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I managed to get out by downloading the user's manual on another |
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computer which had the instructions. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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