[xmonad] XMonad inside Virtualbox inside XMonad

Daniel Wagner daniel at wagner-home.com
Sat Feb 8 17:49:26 UTC 2014


Can you just use a different modifier in the guest?
~d

On 2014-02-08 06:37, Jacek Generowicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Somehow XMonad and Virtualbox beetween them conspire to prevent the key
> I use as my XMonad modifier to be passed on to the guest OS (even when
> Virtualbox' key capture prevents the host's XMonad from seeing it). I
> have checked this by running xev in both host and guest and comparing
> what they see: all other modifier keys I can think of, get through to
> the guest except for the XMonad modifier. Obviously this makes it
> impossible to use XMonad sensibly in the guest.
> 
> Any ideas about how to get around this problem?
> 
> Thanks.
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