This is actually several things: 1) when I finish clicking around/entering input into the guest, virt-viewer provides no way of ungrabbing the keyboard that wouldn't involve using the mouse. Why would someone want that: if you are quickly switching between the host and the guest, it is really helpful to have a way to do that without having to move the mose cursor in and out the window. This makes the user experience unpleasant for people who don't like to use mouse much because it's slow. 2) even when the input is grabbed as described above (mouse over window) it is impossible to send the guest ctrl+alt+f1 through keyboard. the user again has to touch the mouse and navigate through menus. This makes the user experience inconsistent. How vmware-server-console-1.0.8 is doing it: when you click into the window/press enter in the console window, both mouse and keyboard are grabbed and trapped in the guest. all the shortcuts work. the 'complete grab' is released when ctrl+alt is pressed *and released* (so ctrl+alt+delete for instance doesn't trigger reboot). This doesn't have to be the default for virt-viewer, but it should be possible to set it through an option.
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bumping to rawhide so bugzapper doesn't close this.
Anyone have an opinion on this? The RFE has been kicking around for a 2.5 years without comment, if it's not anything we will ever do it should just be closed IMO
I'm against closing this. The ten years old vmware console is still ten times easier and more consistent to use than virt-viewer.
1) shouldn't be an issue (at least with remote-viewer+SPICE), there's a keyboard shortcut to ungrab the keyboard/mouse (ctrl+alt by default if I'm not mistaken) As for 2), can ctrl+alt+f1 be passed to guest using a linux vmware client? Same question with ctrl+alt+del with windows vmware clients if you have experience with these.
2) yes. I haven't used these in a while but I remember that unless I pressed and released the ungrab combo (Both CTRLs?) I could send the machine anything, including ctr+alt+f2 --- I remember this pretty clearly as I was working on Anaconda then and the shortcut is used often during debugging. Going to KVM+virt-viewer was a disappointment then.
Still not working optimally in F19. In fact, it's hard to say anything is improving in virt-viewer besides it getting slower.
Since this is an RFC, moving to the upstream tracker
Closing since no one seems to have concrete proposals to actually fix this in 9 years & the original reporter's account is closed. Keeping it open isn't helping