Bug#939830: gnome-shell: Handling of special keyboard shortcuts
Nikos Voutsinas
nvoutsin at gmail.com
Mon Sep 9 11:51:15 BST 2019
Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.30.2-9
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
On a Debian Buster/Gnome setup, with the Virtualbox 6.x package installed special keyboard shortcuts that have been configured on the host machine are not made available to the guest machine even when the guest has been started with the "Auto capture keyboard" option turned on. Under the same setup, unconfigured keyboard shortcuts on the host machine are caught by the guest as expected. One major side effect of this is the fact that standard keyboard shotcuts are not available on the guest machine, such as switching between desktops by using the "Super key + PgUp/PgDn".
Switching to another desktop environment e.g. KDE, brings back the expected behavior in all cases. Finally the results are same both with the Debian's and Oracle's Virtualbox packages.
To reproduce:
1. On the Host Machine configure via the Gnome Settings the F1 keyboard
Shortcut to launch e.g. the terminal-emulator
2. On the Guest Machine configure via the Gnome Setting both F1 and F2
keyboard Shortcuts to launch the terminal-emulator
3. On the Guest Machine press the F1 key. That will bring the terminal
of the Host Machine.
4. On the Guest Machine press the F2 key. That will bring the terminal
of the Guest Machine
Expected outcome: Both F1 and F2 on the Guest Machine are expected to bring the terminal emulator of the Guest Machine assuming that the Auto captur keyboard setting is turned on.
see also: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810257#10
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.30.1-2
ii evolution-data-server 3.30.5-1
ii gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 0.6.45-2
ii gir1.2-atspi-2.0 2.30.0-7
ii gir1.2-freedesktop 1.58.3-2
ii gir1.2-gcr-3 3.28.1-1
ii gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 3.28.1-1
ii gir1.2-gdm-1.0 3.30.2-3
ii gir1.2-geoclue-2.0 2.5.2-1
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.58.3-2
ii gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 3.28.2-4~deb10u1
ii gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 3.30.2.1-2
ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.24.5-1
ii gir1.2-gweather-3.0 3.28.2-2
ii gir1.2-ibus-1.0 1.5.19-4
ii gir1.2-mutter-3 3.30.2-7
ii gir1.2-nm-1.0 1.14.6-2
ii gir1.2-nma-1.0 1.8.20-1.1
ii gir1.2-pango-1.0 1.42.4-7~deb10u1
ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.105-25
ii gir1.2-rsvg-2.0 2.44.10-2.1
ii gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.64.2-2
ii gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 0.99.10-1
ii gjs 1.54.3-1
ii gnome-backgrounds 3.30.0-1
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.30.2-3
ii gnome-shell-common 3.30.2-9
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.28.1-1
ii libatk-bridge2.0-0 2.30.0-5
ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-7
ii libcanberra0 0.30-7
ii libcroco3 0.6.12-3
ii libecal-1.2-19 3.30.5-1
ii libedataserver-1.2-23 3.30.5-1
ii libgcr-base-3-1 3.28.1-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.58.3-2
ii libgjs0g 1.54.3-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u1
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.58.3-2+deb10u1
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.14.4-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1
ii libical3 3.0.4-3
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.4.4-2
ii libmutter-3-0 3.30.2-7
ii libnm0 1.14.6-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-7~deb10u1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-7~deb10u1
ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.105-25
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-25
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 12.2-4+deb10u1
ii libpulse0 12.2-4+deb10u1
ii libsecret-1-0 0.18.7-1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-6
ii libsystemd0 241-7~deb10u1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1
ii mutter 3.30.2-7
ii python3 3.7.3-1
Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii bolt 0.7-2
ii chrome-gnome-shell 10.1-5
ii gdm3 3.30.2-3
ii gkbd-capplet 3.26.1-1
ii gnome-control-center 1:3.30.3-2~deb10u1
ii gnome-user-docs 3.30.2-1
ii iio-sensor-proxy 2.4-2
ii switcheroo-control 1.2-2
ii unzip 6.0-23+deb10u1
Versions of packages gnome-shell suggests:
ii gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 0.24.1-2
ii gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 0.8.2-3
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