> -----Original Message----- > From: Dmitry Torokhov > Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 0:58 AM > To: Dexuan Cui > > For each char in the string, the host sends 2 events (key down/up with the > > char's UNICODE value) to the guest. > > The patch finds each char's scan codes of key down/up, and injects the > > scan codes to the serio keyboard module. > > > > Known issues: > > 1) Only printable ASCII chars are supported, and unsupported chars are > > ignored. It seems unlikely to support generic UNICODE chars because there > > is not a generic API to inject a UNICODE char to text mode console, KDE, > > gnome, etc. > > > > 2) When we use the feature, make sure the CapsLock state of the VM's > > (virtual) keyboard is OFF because this patch assumes it -- we'll try to > > fix this later, probably by tracking the state of virtual CapsLock, because > > it looks the keyboard module doesn't supply an API for us to query the > state > > of the keyboard. > > > No way. If you want to do this this way, do it in hypervisor code and keep > feeding AT scan codes to hyperv-keyboard, although I am pretty sure users Hi Dmitry, Yeah, I had the same wish, but later I found this seems unlikely because IMO the feature was firstly invented for Windows VM + generic UNICODE chars, and we know there is no "scan code" for generic UNICODE chars... :-( > of > French, Czech and other keyboard layouts with numbers in upper register > and > symbols in lower will have a few choice words for you. Sorry, I can't understand what these are. Can you please give more details or a link to further info? > If you want real cut-and-paste support in various DEs I'd recommend > working > with VMware on open-vm-tools package to see what can be shared/reused > there. > Consider this NACked with prejudice. > Dmitry Thanks for the suggestion! Let me study open-vm-tools and report back. Thanks, -- Dexuan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
