Virtualbox, photoshop, and alt key

[Red Squirrel]

Alt key in photoshop is required to set clone stamp location, problem is, Alt is a universal key in Linux to manipulate the window. So when I press alt instead of it being passed to the VM it wants to move/resize the window. How do I get around this problem? Is there a way to change that key to something else?

I'm using Linux Mint 17.1 KDE. I checked in the shortcuts and there's lot of alt+ stuff but nothing with just alt, so it seems this is a rather global thing. Like for example if I use alt and drag I can resize a window, this is not really a short cut per say... so really not sure where I'd actually find that. I'm hoping I can just set it to the windows key or something. I'm finding lot of conflicting info on Google, why is it that every single Linux distro does not put all the settings in one place? This is why Linux is such a mess and will never be widely adopted. There needs to be more consistency when it comes to stuff like this.

 

[ninaholic37]

I'm finding lot of conflicting info on Google, why is it that every single Linux distro does not put all the settings in one place

I think it's more because of the desktop environment (KDE) or windows manager (Kwin) than the distro (Mint)? Does this work? http://superuser.com/a/584752

 

[Red Squirrel]

Thanks, from your link this ended up working:

system settings > window behaviour > window behaviour (again) > window actions tab

There's only two choices though, alt and meta, but it just so happens meta is windows key and that's what I wanted, so it worked. At least this way it does not break so many apps that rely on alt for stuff.