Hi, > One strange thing - I only see it when guest is in graphical mode. > If guest is in text mode it works ok.
grabbing works slightly different depending on whenever the mouse is in absolute or relative mode, which is probably the reason for that. With absolute mouse mode being active (using vmmouse or usb-tablet or virtio-tablet) SDL grabs the keyboard if the mouse is within the qemu window, and ungrabs if the mouse leaves the window. Ungrab keyboard via Ctrl-Alt still works for me, until you wiggle the mouse next time. But that is good enough to send specific keys to the host, i.e. just pressing the window key sends it to the guest, and I see the gnome window overview in the guest. Pressing Ctrl-Alt, then the window key shows the host gnome window overview. cheers, Gerd