I’m using Gnome Boxes for running VMs and use multimedia keys on my keyboard to control music playback. But they stopped working once I am inside VM. I want to make some keyboard shortcuts to be processed by Gnome as if I press them on Desktop.
Is there a solution or a workaround? What part of the Fedora system is responsible for such behavior?
I am running Fedora VMs from Mac host OSes, so I don’t use GNOME Boxes in particular. But usually the general rule is to ungrab the keyboard from the guest OS.
This can be done in GNOME Boxes by pressing Ctrl+Alt (left). Once this keyboard shortcut is pressed, it should work to use the multimedia keys right afterwords. I haven’t tested it though.
Thank you!
This is really a simple solution. It is not very convenient, because there is a need to press Ctrl+Alt two times (the first to release a keyboard and the second to lock again afterwards), but it is much better than using mouse to switch windows.