Capture Host HotKey as a Guest HotKey under Wayland (#19105)

[socratis]

I noticed, thanks for posting the ticket info, I linked forum thread and ticket...

[JoergK]

Merry Christmas everybody!

Although keyboard and mouse are captured by the guest OS the hot key Alt+Tab is not executed in the guest window but on the host machine.

Host: Debian 10
Host kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64
VirtualBox Version 6.1.0 r135406 (Qt5.11.3)

Guest: RHEL 7.7
Guest kernel: 3.10.0-1062.9.1.el7.x86_64
GA: 6.1.0

I've attached the VBox.log to this post. Does somebody have an idea what I'm missing or what's going wrong here?

[socratis]

See Capture Host HotKey as a Guest HotKey under Wayland (#19105), and Alt-Tab and other special keys going to host (Linux).

I would merge your thread with the last one, and that one with the ticket one, prevent duplicates. But the original is from 2017, it's going to throw things off. Searching helps too...

[JoergK]

Hi,

Thanks for merging my post in here.

From what I understand wayland was facing an issue so VBox and any other application were not able to catch certain hot keys. This issue was fixed with an extension to wayland that applications like GNOME Boxes could use to catch hot keys. If I got that right, it means for my situation that first my distribution has to use a wayland version that ships with the extension needed and have to wait for VBox to use this extension, right?

As a workaround I could try to switch back to X window system, though.

I don't know if there is anything I could to help resolving this. So I guess I just have to wait for it.

Merry Christmas!

[socratis]

my distribution has to use a wayland version that ships with the extension needed and have to wait for VBox to use this extension, right?

The extension part, right. Waiting for VirtualBox? I wouldn't hold my breath...

As a workaround I could try to switch back to X window system, though.

Do that if you can, don't wait for Wayland to be supported. They've even dropped the 3D acceleration on Wayland, on purpose. If a Guest is using Wayland, no 3D.

I don't know if there is anything I could to help resolving this.

Unless you, or someone else, provides the source code changes, IMHO I don't think it's going to happen any time soon. If you mean logs and debug info, I think they're full of info regarding that part.

[JoergK]

As a workaround I could try to switch back to X window system, though.

Do that if you can, don't wait for Wayland to be supported. They've even dropped the 3D acceleration on Wayland, on purpose. If a Guest is using Wayland, no 3D.

On my host I switched back to using X.org session. So hot keys get caught by VBox and at least my user experience increases. For the guests I try to choose X.org if available when I need the 3D acceleration. So I guess I would be fine for the time and did not have to hold my breath.