On gnome you can modify this behavior with the gnome-tweak-tool in the Window section. I changed the Window-Action key from "ALT" to "Super". I faced the same issues with the Layout-software EAGLE on Windows in VirtualBox. Am 09.07.2016 um 17:04 schrieb Bruno Widmann via arch-general:
Try some other window manager, that way you can find out if it's gnome's wm which is causing the problem. Personally i'm using fvwm, and everything in my windows vboxes is working fine. Haven't tried photoshop though...
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Klaus Doblmann M.A. <klaus@dokla.net> wrote:
On 2016-07-09 13:18, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 12:57:19 +0200, Klaus Doblmann M.A. wrote:
I'm having troubles getting the ALT-key to work properly in VirtualBox as a modifier in applications like Photoshop for things like the clone tool, it isn't recognised as the ALT-key.
Hi,
perhaps the used version of photoshop does work better when using wine. Wine is as easy to use as vbox, it doesn't require graphical desktop sharing by VNC and doesn't require SAMBA to share files or something similar, that is needed by other virtual machines.
Hi Ralf,
Thanks for your reply. I'm very familiar with Wine, however I can't even get past installing the Creative Cloud application which works as a hub/installer for the main apps. Some people report success on running Photoshop on Wine with a lot of tinkering but some of these reports seem to use unlicensed versions... ;)
The whole solution to my problem should be rather easy - SOMETHING messes with the Alt key on the linux side - it's just a matter of finding out what... ;)
Klaus