Re: Cinnamon: tranferring ALT to virt-manager

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On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 13:49 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > Is there a virt-manager config options I need to select in order
> > > to
> > > pass the ALT + left mouse key through to the instance?
> > 
> > There's nothing that virt-manager can do.  It's the same reason
> > tigervnc
> > has the same problem.  In Gnome, it can ask wayland to let the keys
> > through.  And Xwayland I think has a whitelist to allow certain
> > applications to capture as well.  But Cinnamon doesn't have that
> > option.
> >   Maybe you can change the Cinnamon settings to not use that
> > combination.
> 
> That's a good thought. Any idea where I might look for that?
> 
> I don't even understand what purpose ALT+mouse has with cinnamon?
> What's the default purpose for that key combination? Years (decades,
> even) ago, I would look in my X11.conf file where the keybindings
> were
> defined.
> 
> I also don't like the default GNOME wm or I would be using that, but
> I'm also not tied to using Cinnamon. However, it seems to be among
> the
> few fedora choices. Any suggestions on other window managers to use?

Cinnamon is not a window manager but a desktop environment (the window
manager is part of a DE, but not the whole story). Aside from Gnome,
other DEs include KDE (my own preference) as well as a good few others
such as Mate, LXDE, XFCE etc., some of them more lightweight than
others.

poc
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