It works for me on 1.6.0 (client is Windows 10 with Chrome). Without being
in full screen, Alt+Tab opens my local Windows app switcher. In full
screen, it goes through to the remote computer.

Which makes sense, Alt+Tab is also captured by this demo
https://codepen.io/Weston-Thayer/pen/JoGvBym?editors=0010 which you can use
to probe other browsers to understand what can and can't be captured.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM Nick Couchman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM Subbareddy Alamuru <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I am connected to RDP connection from Guacamole, in full screen mode
>> in chrome, alt+tab key is redirecting to client machine (Windows laptop)
>> instead of RDP session. Has anyone got this working? Does Guacamole even
>> supports it on windows?
>>
>>
> This is fully expected, and there is very little that can be done to alter
> this - Alt-Tab is a special key combination that is captured by the client
> Operating System, and in many/most cases will never be passed through to
> the web browser, let alone a web application running in the browser. On
> non-Windows clients (Mac and Linux), you have some control over this - you
> can usually configure the key combinations on those operating systems such
> that they can ignore Alt-Tab and will pass it through to the application.
> For Windows, this is not the case.
>
>
>> Versions tested: 1.5.3, 1.5.5, 1.6.0
>>
>>
> What I said above is certainly true for anything up through 1.5.5 - for
> 1.6.0, we did introduce the Full Screen + Keylock feature, which allows
> *SOME* special key combinations to be ignored by the client O/S and passed
> through when the Guacamole web site enters full screen mode. *HOWEVER*, I
> do not know for sure that Alt-Tab is one of them, and it may vary
> browser-to-browser. You can try it, but, if it doesn't work, there isn't
> much that we can do about it.
>
> -Nick
>
>>

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