I'm running virt-manager using Xwayland. When the cursor gets grabbed, the usual "Press Esc to release" message appears. However, neither Ctrl-Alt nor holding Esc for several seconds release the pointer. Only Ctrl-Alt and then Alt-Tab works.
Could it be that just the mouse cursor is not shown due to the application setting an empty cursor? Can you try using the track mouse effect to highlight whether the mouse actually moves?
(In reply to Martin Flöser from comment #1) > Could it be that just the mouse cursor is not shown due to the application > setting an empty cursor? Can you try using the track mouse effect to > highlight whether the mouse actually moves? When I ungrab from virt-manager with Ctrl-Alt, I see my cursor and it does not move until I alt-tab.
*** Bug 390753 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have a way to reliably reproduce this: Open an application which allows to grab/ungrab the pointer (like virt-viewer). - Click into the area to confine the pointer - Move the invisible pointer outside of the window - Ungrab the pointer - It's now stuck until Alt-Tab is pressed
By "ungrab" you mean Ctrl-Alt? Is this the shortcut for "ungrabbing" by virt-manager?
(In reply to Roman Gilg from comment #5) > By "ungrab" you mean Ctrl-Alt? Is this the shortcut for "ungrabbing" by > virt-manager? Yes.
I'm currently running a QEMU image and can reproduce the problem on master. Until now I was always able though through either pressing ESC or switching to another Xwayland window to let the cursor appear again (it's not reliable though). Any way Crtl-Alt should be made usable as well.
This issue report is quite old. Can you please confirm, that it still persists with KDE 5.23?
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