Hi Marc-André,

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:09:42AM -0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> ----- Mensaje original -----
> > 
> > I am using gnome classic and have some virtual desktops
> > (workspaces) set up between which I can switch with
> > <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Cursor-{left,right}>
> > 
> > This does not work when the focus is on the virt-viewer
> > window, and I did not figure out if/where I could configure
> 
> The spice-gtk display widget will take a global keyboard grab when the 
> pointer is over the display and has the focus. This is to pass those key 
> bindings to the guest, so the guest WM can handle them. Usually, a window 
> manager will not handle bindings when a window has the grab, so you will have 
> to leave the focus from the spice display to release the grab. If you are in 
> fullscreen with virt-viewer, you can reach with the pointer the top auto-hide 
> bar, and use your WM keybindings for example.

thanks for the explanation and pointing out where this is done!
Now at least I found I am not alone with this wish:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2010-September/msg00000.html
However, there is no generic solution yet, it seems.

> If you don't want spice-gtk to get the grab, you can set the SPICE_NOGRAB=1 
> environment variable.

I will try and see if Windows 7 is still usable in this mode.

If all else fails, maybe I can hack key_event() in spice-widget.c,
but probably that's beyond my skills as a low-level programmer. ;-)

Best regards,
Wolfgang

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