VMware not grabbing Alt+Tab input in Wayland sessions

Bug #1924859 reported by Tanner McLoed
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mutter
Fix Released
Unknown
mutter (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

I am currently running VMware workstation pro 16.1. When pressing alt+tab to toggle the windows in the guest OS, the input is instead applied to the host OS and not the guest. When switching from Wayland to Xorg the problem is resolved.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+22ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-14.15-generic 5.11.12
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
CurrentDmesg: Error: command ['pkexec', 'dmesg'] failed with exit code 126: Error executing command as another user: Request dismissed
Date: Sat Apr 17 15:48:45 2021
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: hirsute
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [1849:0112]
 NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] [10de:1401] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] [1462:3202]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-04-16 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Beta amd64 (20210331.1)
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.11.0-14-generic root=UUID=739968f7-1aa4-47f1-8d68-55af0ffb428d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
acpidump: Error: command ['pkexec', '/usr/share/apport/dump_acpi_tables.py'] failed with exit code 126: Error executing command as another user: Request dismissed
dmi.bios.date: 07/11/2013
dmi.bios.release: 4.6
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P2.30
dmi.board.name: Z77 OC Formula
dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP2.30:bd07/11/2013:br4.6:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnZ77OCFormula:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.family: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.sku: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.104-1build1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 21.0.1-2
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.10-3ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200714-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.17-1

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Tanner McLoed (mouthpiece) wrote :
tags: added: wayland wayland-session
affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → mutter (Ubuntu)
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
summary: - Virtual machine not grabbing alt+tab input
+ VMware not grabbing Alt+Tab input in Wayland sessions
Revision history for this message
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 21.04 (hirsute) reached end-of-life on January 20, 2022.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in.

Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Kamen Stoykov (stoykovk) wrote :

I'm using Ubuntu 21.10 and I'm experiencing the same issue

Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
status: Won't Fix → Confirmed
tags: added: impish
removed: hirsute
Revision history for this message
Nicolay Doytchev (lightrush) wrote :

Reproduced in jammy.

tags: added: jammy
tags: removed: impish
Changed in mutter:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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