Changing host window in KVM
Rick Stevens
ricks at nerd.com
Thu Feb 19 19:37:33 UTC 2009
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:44 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 16:53 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 18:47 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>>>>>> If I am running on a VM which is full screen, is there some easy
>>>>>>>> way to change to the other desktops on the host other than
>>>>>>>> dropping the VM back to a window and then using the desktop
>>>>>>>> selector? I've tried several suggested key shortcuts w/o success.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In KDE you can use the advanced application / windows option and
>>>>>>> force-start qemu Windows in a certain desktop.
>>>>>> That wasn't the question. He wants to switch to another desktop while
>>>>>> the VM is running fullscreen.
>>>>>>
>>>>> You have described the question perfectly. ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately I don't have an answer, I'd like to leave all three VM
>>>>> servers running full screen and just pop between them. Clearly I can
>>>>> get there from here, but a short cut would save some time (going
>>>>> between full screen and window take 4-5 sec).
>>>> If you're using Gnome, go to Preferences->Personal->Keyboard Shortcuts.
>>>> Down near the bottom are options for "Switch to workspace N". By
>>>> default they're disabled, but there are defaults for:
>>>>
>>>> Switch to workspace on the left: CTRL+ALT+Left
>>>> Switch to workspace on the right: CTRL+ALT+Right
>>>> Switch to workspace above: CTRL+ALT+Up
>>>> Switch to workspace below: CTRL+ALT+Down
>>>>
>>>> Is that what you want? I have no idea how KDE does this.
>>> It's what I want, but not what happens. :-(
>>>
>>> These get processes by the VM, because it has the "grab" on the keyboard. I
>>> tried using Alt-Cntl to "ungrab" and it did release the cursor, but
>>> using the
>>> key sequence just took me to the next workspace of the VM. I also tried
>>> Alt-Tab
>>> with grab off, but that, too, gets processed in the VM.
>> Ah. Under VirtualBox it works. I have to hit the "ungrab" (default,
>> the right CTRL key), then CTRL-ALT-Right switches me to the next
>> workspace. Haven't tried it with KVM or Qemu.
>
> Not here it doesn't. Ctrl-Alt-Right does nothing (with or without the
> ungrab key, with or without VB running). Or is this a Gnome thing?
I've tested it with VirtualBox on an X86_64 under Gnome. As I said
before, I don't use KDE, but there may be a similar thing under it.
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