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The Keyboard doesn't Work in Virtualbox on Ubuntu 8.04.1

I installed Ubuntu Linux 8.04.1 yesterday and removed Windows. But sometimes I need to use Windows, so I have to install VirtualBox.

I used “sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-modules-generic” to install VirtualBox. Its version is 1.5.6. However, I found a serious problem. My keyboard doesn’t work in VirtualBox. If a virtual machine is running and I click the window, the mouse is captured by the virtual machine. When I press the right Ctrl key the mouse should be released. However, it doesn’t work. I have to press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X. Some people said that the problem can be solved by disabling support to complex characters. But I need the multi-language support so that this method is unuseful for me.

Finally I found a good solution. I used “sudo apt-get install scim-bridge-client-qt” to install the scim-bridge-client-qt package and reboot my computer. Then the keyboard can work in VirtualBox. Although the solution is very simple, I don’t know why. It may be a bug in Ubuntu 8.04.1.

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3 Responses to “The Keyboard doesn't Work in Virtualbox on Ubuntu 8.04.1”

  1. asdf says:
    October 19, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    “sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-modules-generic”

    I never install the ose version…I’ve always have problems with it…

    I always get the Sun “binary” version.

  2. Jacqueline says:
    January 27, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    Oh, I am having this problem too! Didn’t think to connect it with the complex character support. I’ll try installing the scim bridge client, thanks for writing this up.

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