On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:11:50 -0500 Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/30/2010 03:39 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > As an emacs user, I remap caps-lock to CTRL key in normal usage. > > But often in KVM console VNC window, it gets stuck in caps lock mode. > > > > Try passing no-lock-key-sync to the -vnc option. If you're using > virt-manger, that may be challenging without hacking libvirt. > > But you could also try using qemu directly and then using gvncviewer. And I could go back to telnet as well... > > This appears to be a new mis-feature, since it never used to get stuck > > before (not sure whether is kernel, virt-manager or QEMU). > > > > Any clues? > > > > There's a few possibilities. The first is that you don't have the > guest's keymap setup to treat caps lock as ctrl. I imagine you do though. Already done (via Gnome preferences) > The second, more likely, possibility is that our caps lock detection > heuristics are being defeated because you're remapping the key. > > The above option disables our heuristics. If that "fixes" the problem > then we probably need to add some bits to further handle it. The real > source of the problem is that we can receive key down events but if > focus moves we won't receive the key up. That can create subtle > problems where you're pressing control and release it after switching > windows. The effect is the guest sees control as being stuck. > > We do our best to work out this situation but it's not necessarily perfect. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori Ideally you could read keymap and respond accordingly, but that maybe too hard. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
