Alt+Tab when using Wayland in VM

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The wayland support is getting better on each release, awsome! I’m trying to switch now permanently to wayland, but I do have this issue:
When pressing Alt+Tab when using VirtualBox (or Citrix Receiver client) the Alt+Tab event is hadled by the host OS (Manjaro+KDE) but I do like that it is forwarded to the guest OS. Is it possible to change this setting somewhere?

To clarify this: Alt+Tab switches between my applications. When another OS is started in VirtualBox and I do press Alt+Tab there it should switch between the applications in the guest OS inside VirtualBox (or Citrix Receiver) instead of the host/parent OS. It works when using X11 but not on Wayland.

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I’m pretty sure you dont have to try that in a virtual machine you can simply switch between x11 and wayland in logout screen

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Press the Windows key, is called HOST key by Virtualbox and the TAB key instead of the ALT key, then it should work as usual. So press HOST+TAB. Wayland works really great so far without any problems!

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Even Wayland under Virtualbox works smoothly so far, that really amazed me.

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Pressing HOST+TAB works for VirtualBox - but not for Citrix Receiver. And well - I still prefer using the common Alt+Tab. So no possibility available to redirect Alt+Tab to the application when VirtualBox or Citrix is in Foreground?

It perfectly works on X11 - so it should also be supported somehow in Wayland?!

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I assume that it will certainly all still come. Let’s just wait and see how Wayland develops further… I’m glad that it already works pretty well.

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