Bug#874526: Keyboard grab doesn't work under Wayland

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: severity -1 important

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 6:03 PM Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> [I don't know whether this bug lies in gnome-boxes or gnome-shell or
> some combination of both. Release-critical because this completely
> breaks the ability to log into many Windows VMs with gnome-boxes under
> the default GNOME Wayland session.]

I am downgrading the severity since there is a workaround in the
keyboard menu in the headerbar.

> The mechanism gnome-boxes uses to grab the keyboard doesn't work under
> the default GNOME Wayland session. This makes it impossible to send
> Ctrl-Alt-Delete; it always goes to gnome-shell instead.

I can't reproduce this bug. Boxes does correctly grab the keyboard and
tells me that it has in its headerbar.

If you look in the Boxes app menu, there is an item called Shortcuts.
If you click it, it tells you that the shortcut for keyboard grab is
Ctrl + L Alt.

I mean have you tried Ctrl + R Alt + Delete ?

If you can still reproduce, please provide a more detailed test case.
What guest OS are you using? How can you tell that Ctrl+Alt+Delete
isn't being sent to the guest?

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha