Keyboard shortcuts in VMware under Wayland

[Matti Pulkkinen]

Hello,

When I try to run a VMware virtual desktop, my keyboard shortcuts (such as alt+tab) are
all intercepted by the host OS (Fedora 34 Workstation) rather than going to the virtual
desktop. This only happens if I'm using Wayland on the host OS, and goes away if I
switch to Xorg. Looking around on the web, I saw a hint that if I go to Gnome's
Settings and look for VMware under Applications, there would be a switch I can flip to
enable VMware to capture the keyboard shortcuts. There wasn't one. I also found a hint
that adding the window's WM_CLASS to org.gnome.mutter.wayland
xwayland-grab-access-rules might help, but it did not. Any other ideas on how I could get
this to work? It's extremely inconvenient to use a virtual desktop when all my
shortcuts go to the host. I'm very close to being able to use Wayland for everything,
and it'd be nice to be able to knock down the last few obstacles before Gnome decides
to deprecate running under Xorg.

--
Terveisin / Regards,
Matti Pulkkinen

[Samuel Sieb]

On 9/16/21 03:01, Matti Pulkkinen wrote:
>  When I try to run a VMware virtual desktop, my keyboard shortcuts
> (such as alt+tab) are all intercepted by the host OS (Fedora 34 Workstation) rather than
> going to the virtual desktop. This only happens if I'm using Wayland on the host OS,
> and goes away if I switch to Xorg. Looking around on the web, I saw a hint that if I go to
> Gnome's Settings and look for VMware under Applications, there would be a switch I can
> flip to enable VMware to capture the keyboard shortcuts. There wasn't one. I also
> found a hint that adding the window's WM_CLASS to org.gnome.mutter.wayland
> xwayland-grab-access-rules might help, but it did not. Any other ideas on how I could get
> this to work? It's extremely inconvenient to use a virtual desktop when all my
> shortcuts go to the host. I'm very close to being able to use Wayland for everything,
> and it'd be nice to be able to knock down the last few obstacles before Gnome decides
> to deprecate running under Xorg. 
In Wayland, the application has to request access to have full keyboard 
capture.  For non-native apps, it has to go through XWayland.  I think 
you have the right key, but there's also a switch called 
"org.gnome.mutter.wayland xwayland-allow-grabs" that you probably have 
to turn on first.

[Matti Pulkkinen]

to, 2021-09-16 kello 17:32 -0700, Samuel Sieb kirjoitti:
>  For non-native apps, it has to go through XWayland.  I
>  think 
>  you have the right key, but there's also a switch called 
>  "org.gnome.mutter.wayland xwayland-allow-grabs" that you probably
>  have 
>  to turn on first.
>  
This didn't quite fix the issue, but searching the web with that key I
was able to find a workaround. If I hold down the super key, and then
hit whatever key combination, those keys are then interpreted by the
guest OS. No idea why, but it works. Thanks!

-- 
Terveisin / Regards,
Matti Pulkkinen