VBox losing keyboard focus with xorg-x11>=7.4 - Workaround

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VBox losing keyboard focus with xorg-x11>=7.4 - Workaround

Postby iki » Thu Jun 10, 2010 14:55

I observe the following issue after update to Xorg 7.4 yesterday: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3894
It makes keyboard shortcuts in a guest vm unusable if they are assigned as global shortcuts in host OS at the same time - some strokes go then to guest and some to host, very funny ;)

Can Xorg be downgraded to 7.3? The Xorg 7.4 package was released to sabayon standard repo together with KDE 4.4.4, is there some dependency?
I tried to mask ">=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4" in /etc/entropy/packages/package.mask, but then `equo install xorg-x11` complains that "Every package matching xorg-x11 is masked."

Any ideas?

EDIT: Workaround: I went to KWin (KDE window manager) properties for specific window and denied global shortcuts (and also focus stealing, but this is probably not needed) for any windows whose title matches regexp "^My VM name .*- Oracle VM VirtualBox$"
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