Kali missing Speakup laptop keymap

[Gregory Nowak]

Yes, although I have a numpad, I can in fact hold down capslock inside
a vbox guest, and use the speakup laptop keymap if I wanted to. For
the record, this is in virtualbox 4.2.28. I said before I'm running
4.3.x, but I miswrote.

Greg


On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:17:41PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 03:47:31PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > Yes, vbox handles capslock in a weird way, but it does pass it
> > through.
> >
> 
> So you've effectively been able to sue the Speakup laptop keymap inside later
> Virtualbox versions?
> >
> When I initially use capslock in the guest, it doesn't
> > work. However, subsequent presses of the capslock are passed through
> > for me. Vbox does trap capslock so to speak, since the capslock state
> > in the host is changed every time it is pressed while in the
> > guest. This isn't a big deal for me though.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I've noticed this as well; it's a bit of a contrast to how VMware
> Workstation handles capslock key presses.
> >
> > Greg


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