With the right Ctrl key (the default 'host key' as VirtualBox calls it) you are just switching between capturing and not capturing the keyboard inside the virtual machine. VirtualBox's keyboard handling is buggy, and the dead keys problem is just one of them. Another one: not capturing the keyboard really means 'capture some keys in the guest, but let the host handle some other keys'. Thanks to this bug you can use the dead keys in your guest: switch off keyboard capturing, and suddenly the guest handles the dead keys the way it should have done with the keyboard capturing switched on. To add to the confusion: with keyboard capture switched off, keys like alt-Tab and alt-F4 are handled by the host, while Tab is handled by the guest... are you still there? So this is a VirtualBox problem, not an Ubuntu problem.
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