Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM Guest keymap issue

[Matej Mailing]

If I could help with some further testing, please send me more
information and I will be glad to help.

Thanks,
Matej

2013/10/8 Jan Krupa <address@hidden>:
> On 10/08/2013 05:51 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 08.10.2013 11:07, schrieb Matej Mailing:
>>> the strange thing is that all other keys and combinations work except
>>> those ccaron, Ccaron, scaron and Scaron, zcaron and ZCaron don't.
>>
>> As mentioned on IRC, my colleague had sent a patch to add ccaron, scaron
>> and zcaron support for VNC:
>>
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/270143/
>>
>> Looks as if that hasn't been picked up yet, other patches in that series
>> have unresolved review comments. Jan?
>
> Sorry I was on vacation for the past few weeks. I'm back and I'll be
> sending updated patch later this week.
>
> I also added all missing key symbols already used in all keymaps in QEMU
> which should fix these problems. I'll send this in separate patch.
>
> Jan
>
>> Regards,
>> Andreas
>>
>> P.S. Please don't top-post, that makes it harder to understand for added
>> people.
>>
>>> In
>>> our language there are many words containing those chars and I really
>>> need to have them working.
>>>
>>> When looking at the sl keymap file, those codes, even for all other
>>> chars that I type with showkey --ascii, are different than the showkey
>>> outputs, but they work (except those mentioned above).
>>>
>>> Now I am totally confused on how could those that work, work ...
>>>
>>> Thanks for any enlightenments in advance :)
>>> Matej
>>>
>>> 2013/9/26 Matej Mailing <address@hidden>:
>>>> I am still pretty lost here, also after reading your link which shed a
>>>> light to many things.
>>>>
>>>> Every suggestion and idea is very welcome!
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Matej
>>>>
>>>> 2013/9/24 Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>:
>>>>> Not specific to KVM, adding qemu-devel.
>>>>>
>>>>> Matej Mailing <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear list,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a problem with a Windows XP guest that I connect to via VNC and
>>>>>> is using "sl" keymap (option -k sl).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The guest is Windows XP and the problematic characters are s, c and z
>>>>>> with caron... when I type them via VNC, they are not printed at all in
>>>>>> virtual system... I have checked the file /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/sl
>>>>>> and it seems that it contains different codes than I get when doing
>>>>>> showkey --ascii on the host machine (running Ubuntu 12.04). I have
>>>>>> tried to change the KVM's keymap file 'sl' with the codes I get from
>>>>>> showkey, but they are still not printed in virtual system to which I
>>>>>> am connected via VNC...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am totally lost with this issue, thanks for your time and ideas.
>>>>>
>>>>> Required reading for anyone struggling with virtual keyboards:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/more-than-you-or-i-ever-wanted-to-know-about-virtual-keyboard-handling/