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gtk-vnc package

libvirt: inconsistent focus grab behavior

Bug #193443 reported by Jamie Strandboge
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gtk-vnc (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

64bit Hardy with 32bit ubuntu desktop guests (dapper - hardy).

With a virtual machine running, the mouse and keyboard focus is mapped to the guest when the host's cursor hovers over the virt-manager window (focus-on-hover). Clicking into the guest does not grab the focus.

However, this behavior changes if you are in text mode, then (re)start gdm. In this case, you must click in this guest for it to receive keyboard and mouse events. This also makes virt-manager grab the focus, after which you must use Ctrl+Alt to release the grab so the host can receive mouse and keyboard events again.

Choosing focus-on-hover vs click-to-focus should also be user-configurable, especially considering that focus-on-hover doesn't work right yet anyway (see bug 193437).

See original description
Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
description: updated
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Soren Hansen (soren) wrote :

Reassigning to gtk-vnc

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

This is not completely fixed with 0.3.4, but is much better. Feisty and Gutsy guests seem ok, but edgy and dapper guests do not. I thought it might be related to 'vmmouse', but my edgy guest is using vmmouse and it still has the problem.

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Well, now edgy appears to be working as expected (it didn't when I made my last comment). I guess the 'inconsistent' in the summary applies here too.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gtk-vnc - 0.3.4-0ubuntu1

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gtk-vnc (0.3.4-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (FFe: LP: #199054).
    - Dropped ext_key_event.diff (now in upstream proper).
  * Fix various keyboard and focus anomalies (LP: #193427, #193417, #193443).
  * Update Maintainer: field to reflect promotion to main.

 -- Soren Hansen <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:49:04 +0100

Changed in gtk-vnc:
status: New → Fix Released
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