Keyboard capture doesn't work under Wayland

Bug #1777096 reported by Pedro Côrte-Real
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
virtualbox (Ubuntu)
Expired
Undecided
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Bug Description

When using the Wayland session the keyboard capture doesn't work so you can't do things like Alt-TAB in the guest because those get captured by the WM. I did some searching and apparently it's a know wayland that's been fixed in gnome-boxes:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285770

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: virtualbox 5.2.10-dfsg-6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-22.24-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jun 15 10:19:19 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-31 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Pedro Côrte-Real (pedrocr) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

This was probably a wayland issue, that looks fixed upstream.

Please reopen if virtualbox needs a fix

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for virtualbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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