[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#569341: Bug#569341: same for ^W

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 08:37:00AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 03/01/2010 05:50 AM, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > every time i login to a debian VM on the console using virt-manager, i
> > type and edit command lines in bash. one of the most important editing
> > keys in bash is ^W (delete prev word). every time i do that, the console
> > is closed. using ^W while editing command lines is a long-ingrained
> > habit, so i do it repeatedly during any session.
> > 
> > this is, to put it very mildly, extremely annoying.
> > 
> > the virt-manager console window does not need and should not have
> > keybindings for its menus. all key-strokes (except for Ctrl-Alt to
> > release the pointer) should be sent to the VM exactly as typed.
> > 
> > 
> > at the very least, menu keybindings should be a configurable option. i
> > don't care much what the default is, as long as there's a way for me to
> > turn them all off.
> > 
> 
> This should all just work, and is supposed to have worked for a long time.
> Maybe the current accel disable code has regressed in some way: we could try
> to use "gtk-enable-accels", similar to how was done with this commit:
> 
> http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/virt-manager/rev/43585a028ab7
> 
> Maybe someone can check ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log to see if there are
> any backtraces or interesting debug output about this not working.
> 
> FYI, this works for me with upstream virt-manager (which hasn't changed too
> much in this area) on fedora.
Both ^Q and ^W work here without problems in 0.8.3 so I'm inclined to
mark this as fixed.
Cheers,
 -- Guido