Bug 211461

Summary:	Modifier keys (Alt, Ctrl, etc) get stuck on in VNC console
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
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Version:	5.0
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2006-10-19 15:06:22 UTC

Description of problem:
When performing certain operations in the VNC console window for guest VMs you
can get into a situation where modifiers keys get stuck on. eg, 'Alt' appears
permanently pressed in the guest X server. You can get into this situation if
using local keyboard accelerators. eg pressing 'alt-tab' to switch windows, the
guest will receive KeyPress for Alt & Tab, but never see the KeyRelease event
for Alt. When it gets into this confused state, the guest console is essentially
unusable - if you can figure out which keys are stuck on, then pressing &
releasing them again can solve it, but this is very non-obvious for the user

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-manager-0.2.3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open VNC console to guest
2. Press alt-tab to switch to another local desktop app
3. Go back to VNC console
  
Actual results:
All keys presses have 'Alt' applied

Expected results:
Guest keys do not have 'Alt' applied

Additional info:
Fix is already in latest upsteam:

http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel?cs=963a1d4668e9
http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel?cs=74c7ba84a353
http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel?cs=18610f26c019

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2006-10-19 15:17:24 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has requested further review
of this request by Red Hat Engineering.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion in release.

Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2006-10-23 13:37:37 UTC

The fix for this issue has been built into virt-manager-0.2.5-1.el5