Hotkeys (specifically Alt+Tab) not passing through Citrix Workspace

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Hi everyone! I have just switched from Windows 10 to EOS since I don’t want AI being shoved down on my throat and because of the EOL of Win10. I’m a beginner linux user, I have used Ubuntu for a few years during university. I have absolutely love this distro so far, managed to set up everything easily for my everyday life with an exception.

When I’m working from home I need to connect to my work PC using Citrix Workspace. It works fine with a pretty annoying flaw: Alt+Tab and other hotkeys are not applied on the remote host, but on my local PC (so the citrix workspace window gets switched regardless of that it is full screen).

I have tried Citrix’s official suggestion with no luck:

I’m using KDE with Wayland. I have noticed that if I use KDE with X11 the hotkeys are getting captured correctly, but other things broke (i.e. window scaling on my remote is getting reset every time I exit citrix full screen), and I miss many features of Wayland like fractional window scaling, so generally I don’t want to use X11.

Do you have any suggestion how to solve this? ChatGPT suggested to remap Alt+Tab to something else on my local, but this hotkey is so deep in my muscle memory that it would make working locally uncomfortable.

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There many applications that only support that behavior on X11 and not Wayland. You would probably need to find out if Citrix has support for that feature under Wayland.

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Thanks! You are right. Right now Citrix Workspace unfortunately doesn’t support Wayland.

My quick workaround now is to boot up with X11 when I need to work on my remote, dedicate a virtual desktop for fullscreen citrix and if I need to do anything on my local workstation I just switch virtual desktops, that way I don’t need to put Citrix in windowed mode (I’ll try if putting it to tray with a hotkey causes the same issue) and the window scaling won’t get messed up.

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