Re: [Qemu-devel] keyboard under VNC

[Fabrice Bellard]

Joe Batt wrote:
> When I connect to my Linux machine via VNC (the X server version), then
> start up a QEMU session, the keyboard is all screwy.  For instance,
> pressing d prints f (d->f, f->h, c->d, v->i, g->j, h->k, and neither
> shift nor delete work as examples).  It works when I sit at the local X
> session though.
>
> Any ideas as to why?  All my other apps seem to work fine (except
> VMWare, which doesn't repaint reliably and shares the mouse scaling
> problems with QEMU).

QEMU currently uses the raw PC scancodes returned by the X11 server in 
order to avoid keymaps problems. I can add an alternate method based on 
X11 keysyms, but you will have to give an option to QEMU to select the 
language of your keyboard.

Fabrice.