VMware not grabbing Alt+Tab input in Wayland sessions
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mutter |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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mutter (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I am currently running VMware workstation pro 16.1. When pressing alt+tab to toggle the windows in the guest OS, the input is instead applied to the host OS and not the guest. When switching from Wayland to Xorg the problem is resolved.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+22ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
CurrentDmesg: Error: command ['pkexec', 'dmesg'] failed with exit code 126: Error executing command as another user: Request dismissed
Date: Sat Apr 17 15:48:45 2021
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: hirsute
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [1849:0112]
NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] [10de:1401] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] [1462:3202]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-04-16 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Beta amd64 (20210331.1)
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
acpidump: Error: command ['pkexec', '/usr/share/
dmi.bios.date: 07/11/2013
dmi.bios.release: 4.6
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P2.30
dmi.board.name: Z77 OC Formula
dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.family: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.sku: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.104-1build1
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tags: | added: wayland wayland-session |
affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → mutter (Ubuntu) |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
summary: |
- Virtual machine not grabbing alt+tab input + VMware not grabbing Alt+Tab input in Wayland sessions |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Won't Fix → Confirmed |
tags: |
added: impish removed: hirsute |
tags: | added: jammy |
tags: | removed: impish |
Changed in mutter: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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