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wm shortcuts ignored in virtual machine

asked 2014-02-21 12:22:13 +0000

bitozoid gravatar image

updated 2014-02-21 12:22:41 +0000

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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Do you have Windows guest drivers installed?

cdlscpmv gravatar imagecdlscpmv ( 2014-02-23 03:56:32 +0000 )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 gravatar imagebitozoid ( 2014-02-24 15:28:04 +0000 )edit

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

bitozoid gravatar imagebitozoid ( 2014-03-04 11:15:17 +0000 )edit

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answered 2015-02-10 08:23:41 +0000

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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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