can't send keystrokes required by sway/i3

[brianmay]

There doesn't appear to be anyway to send commands to my window manager (sway/i3), because the local window manager processes them before the Firefox process.

JetKVM doesn't seem to have any keyboard mapping, so can't map another keystroke.

JetKVM doesn't seem to support VNC/RDP, so can't use another client that does the right thing (#117).

JetKVM on screen keyboard doesn't seem to support entering combinations like Meta+D either (#211).

As a result, I can't open up a terminal window (Meta+Enter), any window (Meta+D), or switch to another text console even (Ctrl+Alt+F1) so I am stuck.

Any other workarounds I haven't considered?

[anders-larsson]

Managed to get into the same situation, also on Sway. In my case I managed to switch to a TTY that didn't show a login prompt.

One workaround if you still have access to the system with SSH is to connect to the system, become root and run chvt 1 to switch to the first TTY. It doesn't really help if the system in question is only accessible through JetKVM though.

[anders-larsson]

OK. I figured out how I managed to switch tty in JetKVM. For me, at least, just pressing $mod key (in my case Super/Windows key) switches me to the next tty. This at least allows you to switch between ttys at some capacity.