qemu mouse and keyboard grab is an accessibility problem
Bug #237635 reported by
Henrik Nilsen Omma
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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QEMU |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Dustin Kirkland |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: qemu
When you click in a qemu window it grabs the keyboard and mouse and instructs you to press ctrl+alt to release them. However this is not possible for users of Sticky Keys who will get stuck in the qemu instance.
The solution would be to make the release key configurable so that you can set it to a single key (e.g. Windows key, right ctrl, F10, etc.)
It is related to bug 236137 ('keyboard with dead keys don't work with kvm/qemu'), but the access issue can be fixed more easily than the general key code grab problem.
Related branches
Changed in qemu (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Soren Hansen (soren) → nobody |
Changed in qemu (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) |
affects: | qemu (Ubuntu) → qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) |
Changed in qemu-kvm (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) → nobody |
Changed in qemu-kvm (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in qemu: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
milestone: | none → 0.12.0 |
Changed in qemu: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Here is a patch (kindly prepared by Lars Wirzenius) that simply sets the key to right-ctrl. This is probably not a workable general solution, but at least it points to the right place in the code :)