Hi,
I'm trying to use Remote Desktop Viewer on f34 with my Windows 10 instance and Photoshop, but it appears the Alt key is being intercepted by the RDV application. If you're familiar with Photoshop, I'm trying to use alt-click to select a clone point, but photoshop says a clone point has not been defined.
I then tried to full-screen the Windows instance, but then couldn't exit from it. The GNOME docs say there is supposed to be a menu in the center-top of the screen, but it never appeared. Perhaps it's because Windows doesn't actually consume the full dimensions of my screen? The resolution is much smaller than the full resolution of my desktop.
Perhaps this is a Cinnamon problem? I don't recall having this problem with f33 and the default GNOME desktop (whatever that was).
https://help.gnome.org/users/vinagre/stable/fullscreen.html.en
Thanks, Alex
Hi, I posted the message below a few days ago, but just now figured out the problem.
The problem is that when I hold down the ALT key, it is being intercepted by Cinnamon or wayland or whatever, and not being sent through to photoshop in my Windows virtual machine.
If I hold down the ALT key and click, I can drag the whole "remote desktop viewer" window, and not photoshop.
How can I tell my desktop that ALT-click should be passed through to the virtual machine itself?
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 12:36 PM Alex mysqlstudent@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use Remote Desktop Viewer on f34 with my Windows 10 instance and Photoshop, but it appears the Alt key is being intercepted by the RDV application. If you're familiar with Photoshop, I'm trying to use alt-click to select a clone point, but photoshop says a clone point has not been defined.
I then tried to full-screen the Windows instance, but then couldn't exit from it. The GNOME docs say there is supposed to be a menu in the center-top of the screen, but it never appeared. Perhaps it's because Windows doesn't actually consume the full dimensions of my screen? The resolution is much smaller than the full resolution of my desktop.
Perhaps this is a Cinnamon problem? I don't recall having this problem with f33 and the default GNOME desktop (whatever that was).
https://help.gnome.org/users/vinagre/stable/fullscreen.html.en
Thanks, Alex
On 7/14/21 6:43 PM, Alex wrote:
The problem is that when I hold down the ALT key, it is being intercepted by Cinnamon or wayland or whatever, and not being sent through to photoshop in my Windows virtual machine.
If I hold down the ALT key and click, I can drag the whole "remote desktop viewer" window, and not photoshop.
How can I tell my desktop that ALT-click should be passed through to the virtual machine itself?
In the previous message you left out the part about it being a virtual machine. How are you running the VM? From the link you included, I'm guessing that the "remote desktop viewer" you're using is vinagre. How did you choose that one? I recommend using "remmina" in general, but if you're running a qemu VM, then either the virt-manager launcher or virt-viewer are good and can capture all keys. The spice connection is much better than the vnc one anyway.
Hi,
The problem is that when I hold down the ALT key, it is being intercepted by Cinnamon or wayland or whatever, and not being sent through to photoshop in my Windows virtual machine.
If I hold down the ALT key and click, I can drag the whole "remote desktop viewer" window, and not photoshop.
How can I tell my desktop that ALT-click should be passed through to the virtual machine itself?
In the previous message you left out the part about it being a virtual machine. How are you running the VM? From the link you included, I'm guessing that the "remote desktop viewer" you're using is vinagre. How did you choose that one? I recommend using "remmina" in general, but if you're running a qemu VM, then either the virt-manager launcher or virt-viewer are good and can capture all keys. The spice connection is much better than the vnc one anyway.
Yes, it appears to be Vinagre 3.22.0. This appears to be what's included with fedora34.
The virtual machine is a kvm/qemu instance of Windows 10.
I'm not sure I completely understand - I don't want to capture the ALT-click, but pass it through to the VM.
The problem also happens in virt-manager. I also just tried it in remmina for the first time, and it occurs there too.
Perhaps I'm not fully explaining the problem I'm having? I need to be able to have an ALT-click pass through to the VM instead of operating at the viewer level in order to define a photoshop clone stamp source point.
It also looks like I'm already using the spice connector? "-spice port=5900"
On 7/15/21 7:40 AM, Alex wrote:
The problem is that when I hold down the ALT key, it is being intercepted by Cinnamon or wayland or whatever, and not being sent through to photoshop in my Windows virtual machine.
If I hold down the ALT key and click, I can drag the whole "remote desktop viewer" window, and not photoshop.
How can I tell my desktop that ALT-click should be passed through to the virtual machine itself?
In the previous message you left out the part about it being a virtual machine. How are you running the VM? From the link you included, I'm guessing that the "remote desktop viewer" you're using is vinagre. How did you choose that one? I recommend using "remmina" in general, but if you're running a qemu VM, then either the virt-manager launcher or virt-viewer are good and can capture all keys. The spice connection is much better than the vnc one anyway.
Yes, it appears to be Vinagre 3.22.0. This appears to be what's included with fedora34.
The virtual machine is a kvm/qemu instance of Windows 10.
I'm not sure I completely understand - I don't want to capture the ALT-click, but pass it through to the VM.
That's what "capture" means. The viewer captures the key events and passes them on to the viewed system.
The problem also happens in virt-manager. I also just tried it in remmina for the first time, and it occurs there too.
The virt-manager viewer definitely captures the ALT.
Perhaps I'm not fully explaining the problem I'm having? I need to be able to have an ALT-click pass through to the VM instead of operating at the viewer level in order to define a photoshop clone stamp source point.
I know what you're trying to do and it works for me. If you're using remmina, make sure you have the "grab all keyboard events" option selected.
It also looks like I'm already using the spice connector? "-spice port=5900"
Ok, that's possible. What connection string do you use?
I tested out the "Remote Desktop Viewer" (vinagre). It does pass the ALT key through. There is a bug with the full-screen menu. It's invisible. If you move the mouse up the the top-center of the screen, you activate the menu, but can't see it. If you move the mouse down slightly and a bit left and right, you will get tooltips for the menu items you're hovering over. ALT-ESC also got me out of it.
The most likely cause of your problem is that it's the window manager that's not letting the viewer do the capture. What are you using? Gnome doesn't use ALT-mouse to move windows, so it can't be that.
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