okay so I have windows 8 and am running Lubuntu as a VM using vmplayer. I have my laptop hooked up to an external monitor so I have the VM full screen on my laptop and windows 8 on the monitor. What I want is, suppose I have a word document opened up in windows 8 but I'm typing in my VM right now and I want to quickly switch to the word document in windows 8, is there a keyboard shortcut / way to create a keyboard shortcut to switch between the VM and host operating system? Because moving the mouse and clicking between the VM and host operating system is getting a bit annoying.
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When working in full screen mode, I'd like a way to quickly switch between host and VM using a toggle key. How can I do this? Thanks.
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Windows 10 introduced Task View - the ability to have multiple virtual desktops. When I am in a window on Desktop 1, what's the quickest way to move it to Desktop 2?  Currently, I need to enter the task switcher (icon in the Taskbar or Win + Tab), find the window, and drag &amp; drop it between desktops. It is inconvenient. Is there a quicker way?
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I would like to know what the best way to get a computer running Windows 8 or 8.1 into the light blue Advanced Startup Options menu is.  Also list the ways to get into Safe Mode if different from the ways above.  If possible, account for the fact that something is wrong with the computer and they cannot log in. Also, while I realize that SHIFT+F8 is a good way to get into the menu, most computers nowadays are "too fast" to see it.  My video drivers are broken, so it's kind of hard to open a command prompt. I'm not even sure if I am logged in or not.
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I am running a web server at home using Ubuntu 11.4 (maybe? I can't 100% recall) on an older AMD 2400+ desktop with 1 or 2 GB of RAM. Sorry I can't recall the details 100%.  Anyway, I have a KVM hooked up to a monitor and PS2 keyboard that I use to switch between the server and my iMac (The keyboard is only hooked up so I can switch between the two easily. Many times a week, Pingdom will tell me the server is down and I can't hit the server. When I get home (it rarely happens when I am home), I hit the Ctrl key twice to switch to the server, hit the space bar and everything is now up and running again. I need to look again, but I don't believe there is any power saving features turned on in the BIOS.  Does anyone have any other suggestions of what I may have going on? I have my uncle's website running on it now and I really would like to have a better up-time than 95%  As a note, I do not have any GUI installed so everything has to be done on the console (or through WebMin) and I know my way around, but I am by no means experienced.
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I have a desktop PC running Windows 7 setup on a traditional desk. From time to time, I would like to plug in a Windows 7 laptop and share the keyboard and mouse, (monitor - I am ok with using the laptop monitor).  What is the easiest way to achieve this? Using a KVM switch? Without needing to reboot either machine?   Thanks
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I have 2 computers (both running linux) and I'm currently using synergy to use them. This is great, but now I'm wondering, is there any way (is it possible? being worked on? tried and failed? definitely not possible?) to not only share a mouse/keyboard/clipboard between the computers, but to share an X session? What I'm thinking is being able to drag X windows between monitors.   I realize that this is extremely non-trivial to do and I know enough about linux (though not about xserver) that I'd like to pursue this idea even if there's nothing that does this for you.  Also, I don't need to be able to just "install this and it works". I'm completely willing (and would be surprised if it didn't require) to install custom kernals, or mount partitions between machines, or whatever it takes. Since I assume it would require the same instance of xorg server running on both machines.
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Does Apple have keyboard shortcuts to switch between applications in Mission Control? (Instead of hovering over with the cursor)?  e.g., which key combination cal I press to get me from "preview" to "app store?"
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I got two laptops which share keyboard, mouse and monitor using a kvm-switch. One laptop runs Windows XP and works perfectly. The other one running Windows 7, however does not recognize keyboard and mouse.  I made the hidden devices visible and deleted the unused ones. After the reboot the keyboard and the mouse work. Windows 7 tries to find the 'missing' drivers and upon failing deactivates the devices which renders them unusable again.  Has anybody had the same problem and can help me with it?  Cheers, AC  Edit:  The KVM-Switch is an ATEN Petite CS692 2-Port USB HDMI KVM Switch  The keyboard a standard 102-key Logitech USB  The mouse a Logitech M705 Marathon Mouse with an unify[sic?] connector.  No adapters for the keyboard or mouse but one for dvi to hdmi on the Windows XP machine.
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Is there a way to preserve the taskbar order while switching between virtual desktops in Windows 10? The order resets on my PC every time, and that's very annoying.
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I configured the ring switcher with the CCSM.  I press Super + Tab and I start to cycle between all windows, but when I release the keys on the desired one, I have to either click on it or press enter.  How can I make it automatically select the window when I release the key?  It was working, but suddenly it stopped doing it.  I have the same trouble with Shift-Switcher compiz plugin.
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I know that using Alt+F7, I can use the keyboard to move the window around. I can also use the "Grid" plugin of Compiz to position quickly the window around my current monitor. The grid plugin doesn't seem work across monitor however.  What I need is a quicker way to move the current window to the other screen. In my current dual-monitor setup, I find myself needing to move the focus window to the other monitor as I focus on working on something else (and move it back afterward).  If I use XMonad (or other tiling managers), this would be rather easy. However, many applications that I use (Gnome Do, MATLAB, image viewers, custom apps that I write, ...) do not work well with a tiling manager.   So my question is: is there a shortcut key combination that moves the currently focused window to the other monitor (and back)?
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Windows 7, Logitech G110 keyboard  2 audio devices (headphones and speakers)  I am hoping to find a quick way to macro a key to switch to headphones, and a key to switch to speakers.  Anyone have a good program or anything of that nature?  EDIT:  Using AHK to try and get this task working as hoped is sadly not doing the trick.  I have included a screenshot of my audio set, as well as a screenshot of my script as it sits now.    I have also tried to uncheck "show disabled devices" and modified the script to be Down 1, and Up 1 respectively.  It will work for one device, but it refuses to switch to the secondary.
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I used to use a lot ctrl+alt+numpad to move windows, how can I use this feature on ubuntu 18 like it was default before?  Thank you in advance
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I run a guest ubuntu 12.04 on a host ubuntu 12.04, with VirtualBox, and the guest is much, much slower than the host (ALT+TAB takes 4-5 secs). I had a look around and I found contradicting opinions on VirtualBox versus VMware (free); so I thought to keep the former.   Both systems are updated, I installed the additions on the guest and I evenly split memory and video memory (64MB) between guest and host. I am running a Toshiba m200 laptop with 4GB ram and shared video memory. The host bios does not include a configuration option for machine virtualization. I have 2 cpus and I can't give them both to the virtual machine.  Is there anything I overlooked that could solve my problem?  Feel free to ask for more info, and thank you for any help.  EDIT Idling with the system monitor open the (single) guest cpu never gets below 55% and could rise to 80 - 90% just by moving the mouse around. Opening Firefox will cause the system monitor to show cpu usage 100% in the guest, while the host shows that both cpus are evenly working around 60%.  My cpu is Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T5450 @ 1.66GHz × 2.  If this is not a configuration problem, does it mean my machine is too weak for virtualization?
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Let's say I have a PC with two monitors atached. I'm running e.g. Windows Vista natively, and start up a virtual Ubuntu PC. I change to fullscreen mode so that on one Monitor, I see my Windows Desktop, and on the other one, the Ubuntu Desktop. I can now use my mouse and Keybord for both of them.  This works fine, but I'd really like to connect a second mouse and a second keyboard to my physical PC, and do some configuration so that one set of input devices is used for Windows, and another set for the virtual Ubuntu. Then two persons could work at the same time, as if they were using two separate computers, although there is only one physical machine.  I'm currently using Sun VirtualBox and it has a feature to assign specific USB devices to the virtual machine. While this sometimes works for e.g. external disk drives, it never worked for mice and keyboards for me (yes, of course my input devices are attached via USB!).  I'd like to know a solution that works with VirtualBox, but any answer is appreciated, even if another virtualization software or some additional hardware was needed.
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I loved the keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 (i.e. Win + &larr; moves a window to the left side of the screen), but I'm not sure on what some of the new ones might be for Windows 8.  What are all of the NEW keyboard shortcuts that I can use while working in Windows 8?
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I really like the Hyper-V support in Windows 8, however, there are some situations in which I need to disable Hyper-V in order to run some apps which don't like to be executed even in the root partition of the virtualized environment. What I've been currently doing is disabling the feature completely from the "Add or remove windows features" dialog and restarting, enabling it again when needed. I would like to know if there's any better way to do this that comes to mind, it could even be a shortcut that i could double-click and will actually add or remove the feature for me and restart (I guess this may be possible with a PowerShell script).