VirtualBox stealing focus after last dup

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#1

Hi all,

I’ve got an annoying W10 guest that’s stealing my host focus after the last distribution upgrade. Each time I click back in the host, I only have half a second to type, before the focus is back to the guest. The only workaround is to click in the host and quickly Alt-Tab to the window I want to work in. Then I can type, and the input doesn’t go to the guest.

VirtualBox 6.0.8_SUSEr130347, extension pack and guest additions installed.
Tumbleweed 20190630
2D/3D acceleration in VBox deactivated (issue occurs with 2D accel enabled as well).

Any ideas?

Cheers

#2

Note: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62999
Also: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-76742?jql=text%20~%20"virtualbox"

#3

@Kraligor:

Have you successfully updated the VirtualBox Extension Pack from V5.whatever to V6.0.8 ?
Did you also update the Windows 10 Guest Additions from V5.whatever to V6.0.8 ?

Please be aware that, I found the Extension Pack upgrade (on Leap 15.1) to be a bit of a pain – the procedure within the VirtualBox GUI Manager didn’t execute properly – the root password wasn’t being accepted …

  • I had to use VBoxManage from a root CLI – uninstall the old Extension Pack version; perform “cleanup”; and then install the correct Extension Pack version …
#4

Larry Finger just posted a fix. Thank you, Larry!

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2019-07/msg00064.html

Thread describing the problem (for the curious):

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2019-07/msg00057.html

#5

I had the same stealing focus issue on Leap 15.1.
A YAST update today from the http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt5/openSUSE_Leap_15.1/
seems to have corrected this issue.

#6

In Tumbleweed, zypper dup to the 20190713 snapshot fixed the problem without Larry’s patch.

#7

That’s good to hear.