Bug 1668036

I suspect this is either a gtk or wayland thing, it's not something coming explicitly from virt-manager code. I haven't really looked into it though: I'm still on X but I've seen it when testing wayland.

Yes this is a newish thing under Wayland. Historically there was no grab feature under Wayland at all. I believe what happens is that GTK now requests the keyboard grab from GNOME shell (which is the wayland compositor/server), and that in turns pops up the confirmation dialog.

I agree that this is insanely annoying because it happens every time, even worse with virt-viewer than with virt-manager.

There needs to be some kind of option "Don't ask me again for this application". Note I say application, not process, because users will repeatedly launch virt-viewer processes and we don't want to be prompted every time.

Adding Olivier since I believe he implemented the keyboard grab stuff for Wayland / GNOME Shell & would know what, if anything, we can do to address this & what component is responsible.

That's gnome-shell

This is still an issue in Fedora 30. Is there any way anyone has found to stop this behaviour?

Olivier submitted this https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/382

Which is supposed to add a 'do not ask again' or similar option to the pop up, and it should be in f30 gnome-shell 3.32. I haven't tried to reproduce it though

Alternatively, you could try this GNOME Shell extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1619/quiet-shortcuts/

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