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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:02:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1001270502x3c1a0593y82f22c8ce915887b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100127105552.1d42c5cf@marcec.huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de>

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:23:20 -0800
> schrieb Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>:
>
>> Completely off topic but what's the trick to free my mouse and
>> keyboard from the Vbox prison they seem to be in? I had to come to
>> another computer to send this message!
>
> By default you have to press the right Ctrl button; the exact button you have
> to press is displayed at the bottom right of the Virtualbox window. Doesn't
> Virtualbox tell you what to press when you first click into a guest window
> (unless you deactivate the popup)? After you install the guest additions you
> won't have to worry about that anymore though, since moving the cursor past the
> edge of windows' desktop boundaries releases it automatically.
>
>> Cheers
>> Mark
>
> HTH
> --
> Marc Joliet

It did tell me but I had dismissed it - not deactivated it - and at
the time was in a long SP3 update and couldn't restart it. I kept
reading it as the Ctrl + right mouse button and just didn't get it.

I managed to get out by downloading the user's manual on another
computer which had the instructions.

Thanks,
Mark



  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-27 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-26 19:55 [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP Mark Knecht
2010-01-26 20:52 ` [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP Nikos Chantziaras
2010-01-26 21:47 ` [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP Marko Obrovac
2010-01-27  0:11   ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-27  0:23     ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-27  9:01       ` Sebastian Beßler
2010-01-27  9:55       ` Marc Joliet
2010-01-27 13:02         ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2010-01-27 14:41     ` Beso
2010-01-27 17:25     ` The Doctor
2010-01-27 18:11       ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-27 23:30         ` Beso
2010-01-28 15:05           ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-27  1:23   ` Lie Ryan
2010-01-27  2:33     ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-26 22:01 ` Paul Hartman
2010-01-27 16:43 ` The Doctor

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