Changing host window in KVM

[Rick Stevens]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 16:53 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 18:47 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>>>> If I am running on a VM which is full screen, is there some easy 
>>>>>> way to change to the other desktops on the host other than 
>>>>>> dropping the VM back to a window and then using the desktop 
>>>>>> selector? I've tried several suggested key shortcuts w/o success.
>>>>>>
>>>>> In KDE you can use the advanced application / windows option and
>>>>> force-start qemu Windows in a certain desktop.
>>>>
>>>> That wasn't the question. He wants to switch to another desktop while
>>>> the VM is running fullscreen.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You have described the question perfectly. ;-)
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I don't have an answer, I'd like to leave all three VM 
>>> servers running full screen and just pop between them. Clearly I can 
>>> get there from here, but a short cut would save some time (going 
>>> between full screen and window take 4-5 sec).
>>
>> If you're using Gnome, go to Preferences->Personal->Keyboard Shortcuts.
>> Down near the bottom are options for "Switch to workspace N".  By
>> default they're disabled, but there are defaults for:
>>
>>     Switch to workspace on the left: CTRL+ALT+Left
>>     Switch to workspace on the right: CTRL+ALT+Right
>>     Switch to workspace above: CTRL+ALT+Up
>>     Switch to workspace below: CTRL+ALT+Down
>>
>> Is that what you want?  I have no idea how KDE does this.
> 
> It's what I want, but not what happens. :-(
> 
> These get processes by the VM, because it has the "grab" on the keyboard. I
> tried using Alt-Cntl to "ungrab" and it did release the cursor, but 
> using the
> key sequence just took me to the next workspace of the VM. I also tried 
> Alt-Tab
> with grab off, but that, too, gets processed in the VM.

Ah.  Under VirtualBox it works.  I have to hit the "ungrab" (default,
the right CTRL key), then CTRL-ALT-Right switches me to the next
workspace.  Haven't tried it with KVM or Qemu.
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