2 files changed, 48 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/vm-manager/README.md b/vm-manager/README.md
index 1bc20ef..8d817f9 100644
--- a/vm-manager/README.md
+++ b/vm-manager/README.md
@@ -69,6 +69,20 @@ Statistics do need sampling, on a 2 second timer, but only while the drawer
 is open: `Virsh.sampling` follows the panel's `open`. A closed panel costs one
 idle process waiting on an event socket.
 
+## Two things that bite
+
+**A config with no visible window exits.** The drawer is closed most of the
+time, so the shell holds itself open with a 1x1 transparent window with an
+empty mask, which is click-through and draws nothing. Without it the shell
+loads, reports no error and quits, and since `SUPER+v` reaches it over IPC,
+the key then has nothing to talk to and silently does nothing.
+
+**Key events reach an item, not a window.** Setting `keyboardFocus` on the
+layer shell is necessary but not sufficient: `Keys.onEscapePressed` on the
+PanelWindow itself never fires, because no item inside holds focus. A filled
+`Item` with `focus: true` catches it, and takes focus back when the TextInput
+in a delete confirmation gives it up.
+
 ## Destructive actions
 
 `Reset`, `Force stop`, snapshot `Revert` and snapshot `Delete` each take one
diff --git a/vm-manager/VmPanel.qml b/vm-manager/VmPanel.qml
index 7aecaab..cf224d6 100644
--- a/vm-manager/VmPanel.qml
+++ b/vm-manager/VmPanel.qml
@@ -78,6 +78,20 @@ Scope {
         else Virsh.act(vm, action);
     }
 
+    // Quickshell exits once no window is visible, and the drawer is closed
+    // most of the time, so a 1x1 transparent window holds the process open.
+    // Without it the shell quits and the keybind, which reaches it over IPC,
+    // has nothing left to talk to.
+    PanelWindow {
+        visible: true
+        implicitWidth: 1
+        implicitHeight: 1
+        color: "transparent"
+        exclusionMode: ExclusionMode.Ignore
+        mask: Region {}
+        WlrLayershell.keyboardFocus: WlrKeyboardFocus.None
+    }
+
     LazyLoader {
         active: root.open
 
@@ -102,7 +116,26 @@ Scope {
                 MouseArea { anchors.fill: parent; onClicked: root.close() }
             }
 
-            Keys.onEscapePressed: root.confirming ? root.confirming = null : root.close()
+            // Keys reach an item, not the window, so something inside has to
+            // hold focus. The TextInput in a delete confirmation takes it when
+            // it appears; this takes it back whenever that is gone.
+            Item {
+                id: keyCatcher
+                anchors.fill: parent
+                focus: true
+
+                Keys.onEscapePressed: {
+                    if (root.confirming) root.confirming = null;
+                    else root.close();
+                }
+
+                Connections {
+                    target: root
+                    function onConfirmingChanged() {
+                        if (!root.confirming) keyCatcher.forceActiveFocus();
+                    }
+                }
+            }
 
             Rectangle {
                 id: drawer