Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug#660154: qemu-keymaps: Finnish keyboard mapping broken

[Marko Myllynen]

Hi,

On 2012-03-02 12:55, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 17.02.2012 01:58, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > Subject: qemu-keymaps: Finnish keyboard mapping broken
> > Package: qemu-keymaps
> > Version: 1.0+dfsg-3
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > With "-k fi -vnc :1" the keyboard layout works pretty well, except the key between left shift and "z" key, which generates<>  
> > characters doesn't work. Instead of "<" it shows "z" and instead of">" (shift-<) it shows "X".
> >
> > It works correctly if I comment out these lines:
> >
> > less 0x2c shift altgr
> > greater 0x2d shift altgr
>
> Confirmed, and the fix is verified by independent person with
> finnish keyboard -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794653
> Thank you Atro for the help!

while the fix above would seem to resolve this specific issue in most 
cases it is probably best to leave the keymap undefined thus avoiding 
using the QEMU internal keymap definitions at all:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638523
http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/python-virtinst/rev/2bde513dcd9e
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/more-than-you-or-i-ever-wanted-to-know-about-virtual-keyboard-handling/

Cheers,

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Marko Myllynen