Keyboard grabbing with super key issue on Ubuntu 22.04

[Jola Mirecka]

Hi,

I've experienced some issues with special keys when keyboard grabbing with Ubuntu 22.04.  Specifically, it didn't grab some keyboard shortcuts like alt+ctrl+up or alt+tab. It was bugging me because it slowed my productivity as I wasn't able to seamlessly switch between workspaces or windows.

I've checked the more detailed log output with -loglevel and it was correctly sending alt and ctrl press and unpress but not the super key. Idk if this is a known bug, but I wasn't able to fix it with any existing solutions online related to TurboVNC (or its derivatives).

After some debugging I found that the issue was that my newly installed distro came by default with Wayland. After switching to Xorg it started grabbing all the keyboard shortcuts correctly. Is this a known issue? I know wayland support is still in the works, but just wanted to drop it here in case anyone experiences the same issues with a fresh Ubuntu installation.

Thanks,

J.

P.S. thanks for all the good work on this, been using TurboVNC with VGL for a while for  advanced scientific graphic display on the remote and it's honestly the most fantastic remote desktop tool I've ever used.

[DRC]

I'll test it.  Java doesn't have Wayland support yet, but I would've
thought that the TurboVNC Viewer would still run properly with XWayland,
which automatically provides backward compatibility with X applications
in a Wayland environment.

[DRC]

I think this is now fixed in the TurboVNC pre-release builds.  Please test as soon as you can, since the TurboVNC 3.1.3 release is imminent.

References:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783342
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/commit/5f132f39750f684c3732b4346dec810cd218d609

DRC

On 11/6/24 6:36 AM, Jola Mirecka wrote:

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