VirtualBox and keyboard grabs

[Michael Thayer <michael thayer oracle com>]

Hello All,

This is a question related to running VirtualBox on a host system with 
GNOME Shell (it actually applies to Metacity and Unity too).  Basically 
our problem is that when we do a full keyboard grab, it is not possible 
to drag windows with GNOME Shell  (I haven't checked very recently, but 
I don't think it has changed in the meantime).  I do understand why that 
happens.  We have worked around this since time immemorial by using 
XGrabKey() instead of XGrabKeyboard() except when we are in full-screen 
mode.  I was wondering though, if anyone had a better idea as to how to 
solve it.  Remmina does it by dropping grabs when the mouse pointer 
leaves its window, which we did not really consider an improvement on 
what we have now, since it is potentially confusing for 
non-focus-follows-mouse sorts of people.

Any thoughts welcome, and if no one has any good solution thanks anyway.

Regards,

Michael
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