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Bug 1500397
Summary: | Keys can't be grabbed under Wayland (needed by remote desktop viewers, virtual machine managers) | |||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Tomas Pelka <tpelka> | |
Component: | mutter | Assignee: | Florian Müllner <fmuellner> | |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | Filip Hanzelka <fhanzelk> | |
Priority: | unspecified | |||
Version: | 7.5 | CC: | ajax, desktop-qa-list, echaudro, fmuellner, jkoten, jlmagee, lmanasko, mclasen, ofourdan, ossman, tpelka, vhumpa, xgl-maint | |
Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature | |
Target Release: | --- | |||
Hardware: | Unspecified | |||
OS: | Unspecified | |||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Known Issue | ||
Doc Text: |
*Wayland* ignores keyboard grabs issued by X11 applications, such as virtual machines viewers
Currently, when running through the *XWayland* server, graphical clients that rely on the *X11* software, such as remote desktop viewers or virtual machine managers, are unable to obtain the system keyboard shortcuts for their own use. As a consequence, activating these shortcuts in a guest window, such as a *virt-manager* guest display, affects the local desktop instead of the guest.
To work around the problem, use a *Wayland* native client with support for Wayland shortcuts inhibitor protocol, or switch back to the default GNOME session on *X11* to run the *X11* clients that require system keyboard shortcuts.
Note that Wayland is available as a Technology Preview.
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Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | 1285770 | |||
: | 1500399 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2020-07-21 16:34:01 UTC | Type: | Bug | |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
Embargoed: | ||||
Bug Depends On: | 1285770 | |||
Bug Blocks: | 1277927, 1500399 |
Description
Tomas Pelka
2017-10-10 13:49:12 UTC
If this means that you guys are working on this, then I'd like to state that we (as applications developers in need of this) are very happy to provide feedback. :) Support for this is already available upstream, but not part of any stable release of mutter or Xwayland yet. Basically, there are 3 components required for this work: - wayland-protocols for the “xwayland-keyboard-grab” protocol definition. This is already in the version of wayland-protocols we ship for 7.5 - Xwayland needs to translate X11 grabs into the Xwayland protocol This is commit 0a448d13 and commit 3fbc3c3e upstream: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=0a448d13 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=3fbc3c3e → This is not part of the stable “server-1.19-branch” so this would need to be backported - mutter needs to support the relevant “xwayland-keyboard-grab” protocol This is commit 072afa5f in mutter upstream https://git.gnome.org/browse/mutter/commit/?id=072afa5f → This is not part of the stable “gnome-3-26” so this would need to be backported The issues with virt-viewer are resolved as of Fedora 31. However, Wayland does not operate as smoothly as X11 so I've switched back |