Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM Guest keymap issue

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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 <mailing@xxxxxx>:
>>> 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 <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> Not specific to KVM, adding qemu-devel.
>>>>
>>>> Matej Mailing <mailing@xxxxxx> 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/
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