Hot key cannot be sent to vnc

[lvroyce]

Hot key like 'ctl+alt+F2' cannot be sent through noVNC client, and we cannot switch between terminals.

[alinefm]

@lvroyce could you provide step by step to reproduce it?

In the VNC session of a Fedora VM, I am able to do:

• with Terminal open: Ctrl+Shift+T to create new terminal tab
• with Firefox open: Ctrl+Tab to switch between browser tabs
• with Firefox open: Ctrl+T to create new browser tab

[cd1]

She means she cannot switch between the Linux text consoles, not the graphical applications like the ones you mentioned, inside a Desktop Environment. For example, if you press any of the shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+F[1,2,3,4,5,6] on Ubuntu (nothing related to Kimchi yet), you'll be taken to a pure text console. If you press Ctrl+Alt+F7, you'll be taken back to your graphical session.

While running a VM via the VNC provided by Kimchi, @lvroyce is reporting that she cannot get to those text consoles sessions. I believe that if you press that shortcut while running the VNC session, you local system (not the VM's) will grab the key presses.

[alinefm]

@cd1 got it

@lvroyce I am not able to use the hot keys like Ctrl+Alt+F[1,2,3,4,5,6] on VNC session

[lvroyce]

@cd1 right, Hot key will be captured by local system instead of the our noVNC client. When I tried vnc client with virt-manager, it supplies with a send-key function to send hot key to guest. I guess we also need this.