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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add GTK UI to enable basic
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

  Hi,

>> That all keyboard inputs are grabbed when the mouse is in the window and
>> you don't need to press ctrl-alt-g explicitly. And the reverse should
>> happen when the mouse reaches the window border. Just like under SDL,
>> give it a try.
> 
> Right, this was intentional.  I think it's weird that a window would
> steal input when the mouse moves over it breaking desktop accelerators
> like alt tab.  If you've ever alt-tab cycled through windows when QEMU
> is running, if you're unlucky enough to have the mouse where a QEMU
> window may be, the QEMU instance will steal input and prevent alt-tab
> from working anymore.

Same is true the other way around.  Working in the guest, then have the
host desktop grab accelerators can be annoying too.  You might have
wanted switch *guest* windows with alt tab ;)

It is a tricky usability issue.

cheers,
  Gerd