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Disable Windows Key hotkeys when using Virtualbox

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Mar 15, 202618007 views
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I'm currently running a VirtualBox of Arch Linux with Windows 7 x64 as the host. In Arch, I use dwm for window management. As dwm is heavily dependent on hotkeys, I've used the Alt key as its META key to prevent conflict with the Windows 7 host. However, when using Emacs (also heavy hotkey usage) w…

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Fix for: Disable Windows Key hotkeys when using Virtualbox

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I had the same problem (Linux guest in Windows host with wmii windows manager). This registry hack works perfectly. Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box, and then browse down to the following key, creating it if it doesn’t exist: On…

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