On Thu, 29 Dec 2016, Steve Litt wrote: > The host uses Openbox. Next time I shut everything down and restart > X, I'll try it with Xfce and fvwm ON THE HOST and see if that > changes things.
what can be also useful for the purpose of troubleshooting, use: xev -event keyboard and then press and release ctrl-alt inside the host wm, what does that prints out? I run Devuan Jessie on i3 on kernel 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64: KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001, root 0xa3, subw 0x0, time 189416334, (205,375), root:(892,399), state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001, root 0xa3, subw 0x0, time 189416334, (205,375), root:(892,399), state 0x8, keycode 66 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001, root 0xa3, subw 0x0, time 189416898, (205,375), root:(892,399), state 0xc, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001, root 0xa3, subw 0x0, time 189416915, (205,375), root:(892,399), state 0x4, keycode 66 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False ciao _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng