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