Shortcut to exit scale mode in VirtualBox

keyboard-shortcuts virtual-machine virtualbox mode

749,088

Solution 1

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 > Input > Virtual Machine > Host Key Combination.

Solution 2

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!

Solution 3

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,

Solution 4

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.

Solution 5

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&t=47821

View more solutions

749,088

Author by

foki

Updated on February 01, 2020

Comments

foki over 2 years

What is the shortcut to exit scale mode in Oracle VirtualBox, Windows 7 host?
krams over 9 years

It works in Ubuntu 12.10 Virtual Box 4.2.6. Thanks!
Jürgen Paul over 9 years

Note: It's the ctrl button at your keyboard, not right click + ctrl + c (like what I lamely did).
Matt Slaney over 9 years

Thanks, I also had this problem (using debian squeeze). I think I have determined the cause of this problem for myself. My ctrl key was set to 'show position of pointer when pressed' so when I tried binding left ctrl or right ctrl to the host key in VBox it wouldn't work. As soon as I turned off the option to 'show where my pointer is' I could bind the key to host again.
MatheusJardimB over 8 years

what if your notebook doesn't have right ctrl key?
Mike Miller over 8 years

What laptop is that? virtualbox.org/ticket/1753 is it covered under this?
Mike Miller over 8 years

@MatheusJardimB you can remap the host key.
MatheusJardimB over 8 years

@MikeMiller It's a Dell Inspiron 14" - really good in fact, but miss right ctrl and pause/break keys... :/
Mike Miller over 8 years

@MatheusJardimB Bit lame this, but you can map a shortcut key to %windir%\System32\osk.exe - i.e. shift + win + k or similar. that way you can use the onscreen keyboard when needed.
Daira Hopwood almost 8 years

I don't know why this is voted down. It's correct; it does answer the question; and knowing the Host + Home key combination is useful because that's the only thing you need to know in order to access the menu -- that being the actual problem with Scale Mode that most people have difficulty with.
Godisemo over 7 years

This is useful for mac hosts, where I accidentally cmd+c all the time
intuited over 7 years

Under OSX (ubuntu guest) this doesn't work. Once I get into Scaled Mode, the normal commands to return to, e.g., fullscreen mode, don't work. Scaled Mode doesn't display the entire screen.
Mike Miller over 7 years

@intuited Hi this is a know issue with OSX/Ubuntu guests, have a read here and see if it sorts you out. hacksparrow.com/…
pupil over 6 years

for me, it's Shift + Right CTRL + C
pookie over 6 years

I don't have a right-control... what a joke this software is. Luckily, my brain kicked in and I realized that I could use the on-screen keyboard... which does have the right-control. Wow.
shimatai over 5 years

In my case, my notebook doesn't have Right Ctrl, so I had to change to AltGr key.
Peter M over 5 years

Had the same problem when accessing a Windows VM running on a headless Windows computer I was accessing from Mac BookPro via RDP
Admin over 3 years

This may be a new development (as the question is quite old), but on my MS Surface Pro 5, VirtualBoxen automagically use SHIFT+LCTRL for the host key as there is no RCTRL.
Satish Babariya about 3 years

Right Control + c works, thanks