Just to clarify, I know I could disable the "automatic keyboard capture" feature of VirtualBox, but that is so useful that I would prefer to solve this on the xmonad side if at all possible. (Furthermore, it wouldn't solve the issue with the VNC client...) thanks ~l --- On Thu, 6/9/11, Lara Michaels wrote:

From: Lara Michaels Subject: xmonad and VirtualBox/VNC To: xmonad@haskell.org Date: Thursday, June 9, 2011, 5:37 PM Hello

I've noticed that when a VirtualBox window (in which I am running MS Windows XP) has focus keypresses directed at xmonad (mod key + some other key) are handled by VirtualBox (and the guest operating system it is running) rather than xmonad. The same happens when using a VNC client such as vinagre: keypresses directed at xmonad end up being received by the remote machine I am working with.

Is there a way to avoid this and have xmonad intercept these keypresses?

thanks ~lara