Andreas Rönnquist Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 When I am running Virtualbox on my Synergy server (server running Debian stable), running a virtualbox with Debian Unstable (or anything else) in a window (not fullscreen), and try to move the mouse from the server to my client (also running Debian stable), the Synergy Log on the server show WARNING: can't leave screen and the mouse gets removed until I click a mouse button or a key on the keyboard. This is ONLY if I have the window with virtualbox active, if it isn't active, I can move the mouse move just like expected to the client (and back). The same scenario works fine if running virtualbox on the client, moving the mouse from client to server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Rönnquist Posted May 31, 2017 Author Share Posted May 31, 2017 Oops. I forgot to mention the version - it's 1.9.0-rc3-09ff581 on both server and client. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Suarez Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 Actually, VM's use scroll lock to lock the cursor to the the VM. You can try pressing scroll lock first before switching/entering to a different screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Rönnquist Posted May 31, 2017 Author Share Posted May 31, 2017 14 minutes ago, Paul Suarez said: Actually, VM's use scroll lock to lock the cursor to the the VM. You can try pressing scroll lock first before switching/entering to a different screen. Ah, I just tried restarting my VM activating scroll-lock, and indeed, with scroll lock it completely locks the cursor to the screen - and also prints [2017-05-31T18:29:28] NOTE: Cursor is locked to screen, check Scroll Lock key in the log. If I make sure that cursor isn't locked, I still get the behavior described in my first post. One difference is that the mouse cursor disappears when I expect it to move to the client (as opposed to being limited and unable to move away from the server). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Suarez Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 Hey @Andreas Rönnquist. Can you try checking this thread? With VirtualBox VM in the foreground, cursor can't leave screen. Let me know how it works or if it relates to that problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Suarez Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 I just saw this @Andreas Rönnquist. To return ownership of keyboard and mouse to your host operating system, VirtualBox reserves a special key on your keyboard for itself: the "host key". By default, this is the right Control key on your keyboard; on a Mac host, the default host key is the left Command key. You can change this default in the VirtualBox Global Settings, see Section 1.15, “Global Settings”. In any case, the current setting for the host key is always displayed at the bottom right of your VM window, should you have forgotten about it: From online VirtualBox manual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Rönnquist Posted May 31, 2017 Author Share Posted May 31, 2017 37 minutes ago, Paul Suarez said: Hey @Andreas Rönnquist. Can you try checking this thread? With VirtualBox VM in the foreground, cursor can't leave screen. Let me know how it works or if it relates to that problem. Yeah - disabling "auto-capture keyboard" seems to have fixed my problems! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Suarez Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 Great to hear that @Andreas Rönnquist! You're welcome by the way. Thanks for the update too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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