Shortcut to exit scale mode in VirtualBox

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What is the shortcut to exit scale mode in Oracle VirtualBox  Windows 7 host

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If Right Ctrl  Host Key    C does not work  there have been some issues on Ubuntu   do the following   1  File   Preferences   Input on the Virtual Machine which is stuck in Scale Mode  2  Change or Reset the Host Key  There s no need to even save after changing the settings  3  Re-open the Virtual Machine and it should be reset

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Steps    host   f  to switch to full screen mode  if not yet  host   c  to switch to out of scaled mode  host   f  to switch back normal size  if need    Tip    host key  default to right ctrl  the control button on right part of your keyboard  host   c seems only work in fullscreen mode

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I was having the similar issue when using VirtualBox on Ubuntu 12 04LTS  Now if anyone is using or has ever used Ubuntu  you might be aware that how things are hard sometimes when using shortcut keys in Ubuntu  For me  when i was trying to revert back the Host key  it was just not happening and the shortcut keys won t just work  I even tried the command line option to revert back the scale mode and it won t work either  Finally i found the following when all the other options fails   Fix the Scale Mode Issue in Oracle VirtualBox in Ubuntu using the following steps    Close all virtual machines and VirtualBox windows  Find your machine config files  i e   home  lt username gt  VirtualBox VMs ANKSVM  where ANKSVM is your VM Name and edit and change the following in ANKSVM vbox and ANKSVM vbox-prev files  Edit the line   lt ExtraDataItem name  GUI Scale  value  on   gt   to  lt ExtraDataItem name  GUI Scale  value  off   gt  Restart VirtualBox   You are done   This works every time specially when all other options fails like how it happened for me

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Another solution  poor one do  is exiting VM Box with saving desktop  top option   restart would bring back the screen as it was before the rescale

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Yeah it suck to get stuck in Scale View   Host Home will popup the Virtual machine settings   by default Host is Right Control   From there you can change the view settings  as the Menu bar is hidden in Scale View   Had the same issue  especially when you checked the box not to show the  Switch to Scale view  dialog   This you can do while the VM is running

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as  MikeMiller pointed out  To exit scale mode  Right Ctrl  Host Key    C  but for users who DON T have a Right Ctrl  Host Key    such as MS Surface Pro users  we only have a Left Ctrl key   u need to go into Virtualbox  File  Preferences  Input  VirtualMachine tab  change Host key Combination to one that works for ya I used Ctrl Shift Alt which doesn t seem to be in use already

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In MacOS Cmd C is useful to minimizing the full screen

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To exit Scale Mode  press   Right Ctrl  Host Key    c    Note that your  Host Key  may be different from Right Ctrl  To check the current binding  go to VirtualBox Preferences  gt  Input  gt  Virtual Machine  gt  Host Key Combination

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I arrived at this page looking to turn off scale mode for good  so I figured I would share what I found   VBoxManage setextradata global GUI Input MachineShortcuts  ScaleMode None    Running this in my host s terminal worked like a charm for me   Source  https   forums virtualbox org viewtopic php f 8 amp t 47821

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