[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#706079: virt-manager: cannot send Ctrl-Alt-Del to Windows(R) VM with nonstandard keymap

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.9.4-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

apparently, sending Ctrl-Alt-Del to a Windows(R) VM, with either
regular or spice display, does not work when an X11 keymap that
binds something like Mode_switch to the left Alt key is loaded.

This is a bug IMHO because virt-manager's ability to send arbitrary
special keys to guests ought to be independent of the local X11
settings of a system, especially if that system is neither guest
nor host (but connecting over the network).

This happens with both the sid and experimental libvirt packages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh-static

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2             3.2.5-1+build1
ii  librsvg2-common    2.36.1-1
ii  python             2.7.3-4
ii  python-dbus        1.1.1-1
ii  python-glade2      2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-gnome2      2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python-gtk-vnc     0.5.1-2
ii  python-gtk2        2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-ipy         1:0.75-1
ii  python-libvirt     1.0.4-1
ii  python-support     1.0.15
ii  python-urlgrabber  3.9.1-4
ii  python-vte         1:0.28.2-5
ii  virtinst           0.600.3-3

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
pn  gnome-icon-theme         <none>
ii  libvirt-bin              1.0.4-1
ii  python-spice-client-gtk  0.12-5

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
pn  gnome-keyring             <none>
ii  kwalletcli [ssh-askpass]  2.11-2
pn  python-gnomekeyring       <none>
pn  python-guestfs            <none>
pn  virt-viewer               <none>

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