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wm shortcuts ignored in virtual machine

asked Feb 21 '14

bitozoid
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updated Feb 21 '14

I have a window showing a virtualized Windows7. W7 captures every wm keyboard shortcut, so I need to move the mouse out of the window to be able to send shortcuts to i3.

Windows7 is running in kvm/qemu/libvirt, with Spice monitor and QXL video card.

Is it possible for the window manager to capture these shortcuts?

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Double: https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3270/using-windows-systems-in-vnc-or-vm-with-windows-keysupermod4/

joepd (Feb 21 '14)edit

Do you have Windows guest drivers installed?

cdlscpmv (Feb 23 '14)edit

I have just installed serial, storage, balloon and network. No difference. I tried also to disable the Windows Key with KeyMapper. No success neither.

bitozoid (Feb 24 '14)edit

Read this https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#additions-windows

cdlscpmv (Feb 25 '14)edit

Finally got it working with SPICE_NOGRAB=1. Thanks a lot. http://listarc.com/showthread.php?4965005-virt-viewer+keyboard+handling

bitozoid (Mar 4 '14)edit

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answered Feb 10 '15

savanna_cat
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Another solution: if you're using multiple monitors, you can move your mouse from the Windows VM to another monitor, then type your command.

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