No keyboard (or few) keyboard bindings working for SPICE session.

[nrvale0]

When logging into a Debian 12 VM over SPICE I'm getting either no keyboard combos working or just Super+Enter for terminal working. Not even Super+R and Super+C.

Interestingly, I created .desktop file and dropped in ~/.config/autostart which fires up xev in a terminal. That starts successfully and I can then verify that the keyboard combos are being received by the X11 sessions via the output of the xev window. This is with the i3/X11 session.

Anyone else?

Thoughts?

[nrvale0]

Interestingly, the same VM with i3 over SPICE works fine.

[nrvale0]

Ended up being a missed package install. Validating and documenting now. Current theory is that it was related to one of the x11 session packages...

[kgilmer]

Hmm, if you find the rootcause LMK if we're missing so dependency, thanks!

[nrvale0]

Well, I have bad news. Twice. I have what appears to be 2 red herrings...

1. I think that the missing packages were probably a results of my thrashing on the VM to try to get it working. When I create another VM and use the install instructions the full complement of packages are installed.

2. Between now and when I created this Discussion entry even =xev= has stopped working on these VM + SPICE sessions. It doesn't show any keyboard input. Nor mouse input (meaning entry/exit) either.

Behavior which remains consistent:

1. With default configs on various desktops + WMs, I am still able to do all of the usual keyboard input.

2. With the default regolith 3 X11 config I can still create terminals (Mod+Enter) and I can sometimes close them with Ctrl-d but that's it. No other keyboard input seems to be caught by the Regolith session.

I had a theory that perhaps something about the newest Proxmox version or about my usage of input-remapper on the local system was causing the issue but I have not found any evidence of that in testing.

I'll likely just fall back to other GUI shells for VM usage. If so, I'll close this out in a couple of days.