Bug 455159 - Add Xwayland grab keyboard support
Summary: Add Xwayland grab keyboard support
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: wayland-generic (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
URL:
Keywords:
: 450818 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2022-06-11 14:15 UTC by Ta-Lun Yen
Modified: 2025-03-01 16:35 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

See Also:
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/commit/16a5831fee0ea837e7839d308db256b9f18f3344
Version Fixed In: 5.27
Sentry Crash Report:

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2025-03-01 10:53 UTC, ogamal523 		Details
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Description Ta-Lun Yen 2022-06-11 14:15:51 UTC 
SUMMARY

While KWin has implemented keyboard shortcuts inhibit (https://wayland.app/protocols/keyboard-shortcuts-inhibit-unstable-v1), similar needs for this still exists for application under XWayland (e.g. VMWare). GNOME has implemented this a while ago (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783342). 

Here's a reference to GNOME's implementation: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/commit/072afa5fa3e313e11e662c6a8fb291eda74e8766?expanded=1&view=parallel
Comment 1 Ta-Lun Yen 2022-06-11 16:19:12 UTC 
A reference to wayland protocol: https://wayland.app/protocols/xwayland-keyboard-grab-unstable-v1
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2022-08-03 07:11:02 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/2770
Comment 3 David Redondo 2022-09-23 14:08:10 UTC 
Git commit 16a5831fee0ea837e7839d308db256b9f18f3344 by David Redondo.
Committed on 23/09/2022 at 13:49.
Pushed by davidre into branch 'master'.

Implement xwayland-keyboard-grab protocol

Only XWayland can see and bind to this global.
When a XWayland surface is focused that has a grab, shortcuts
are inhibited.
FIXED-IN:5.26

M  +6    -0    src/wayland/CMakeLists.txt
A  +111  -0    src/wayland/xwaylandkeyboardgrab_v1_interface.cpp     [License: LGPL(3+eV) LGPL(v3.0) LGPL(v2.1)]
A  +51   -0    src/wayland/xwaylandkeyboardgrab_v1_interface.h     [License: LGPL(3+eV) LGPL(v3.0) LGPL(v2.1)]
M  +12   -1    src/wayland_server.cpp
M  +2    -0    src/wayland_server.h

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/commit/16a5831fee0ea837e7839d308db256b9f18f3344
Comment 4 Vlad Zahorodnii 2023-01-19 12:31:55 UTC 
*** Bug 450818 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 ogamal523 2025-03-01 10:53:49 UTC 
Created attachment 178994 [details]
video

Sorry for reviving an old bug report, but this hasn't been fixed still happens on vmware and presumably other applications as well unless there is a way to enable it in the Windows Rules kcm which I haven't been able to find only the general shortcut inhibit not the grabbed input one.

I have attached a video demonstrating what I am talking about VMware grabbed the input yet when I hit the meta key it gets passed to the virtual machine.

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.4-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Comment 6 ogamal523 2025-03-01 10:56:12 UTC 
 > I have attached a video demonstrating what I am talking about VMware grabbed
> the input yet when I hit the meta key it gets passed to the virtual machine.

Correction: The input gets passed to the host not the vm