-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, I have what I think is a rather interesting question. Does anyone know of a seamless method of inputting x11 keyboard events from a text console? Let me explain. I have a very old laptop here running gnu/linux without gnome, or even xorg, since the machine is way too old to run gnome, and I have no use for a full x11 environment which I can't access. I want to use this machine as a rdp client to either VirtualBox's vrde server, or a windows machine. So, I installed Xvfb, and rdesktop. I can connect and get sound from the remote machines, but any key strokes typed in the console where rdesktop is running go to the console of the client, and not out to the remote system. A solution I found for this is a program called xdotool, which can send keyboard/mouse events to an x display. It does what I want,but is ... well ... awkward to say the least. For example, say I want to login on a text console of a machine running inside of VirtualBox through rdp. I can tell xdotool to read from stdin, and a login, and a logout would look like this: type 'user' key Return type 'password' key Return type 'exit' key Return Since xdotool can use scripts, logins and some other things can be scripted, but that's not possible for everything. Typing this e-mail in such a way for example would be out of the question! Then, we get into the mess of controlling speakup on a remote virtual machine, or a windows screen reader. I'd probably need something that can send scan codes here. I think the ideal solution would be something that I can setup from inittab on an unused console. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a beast. This does bring in the problem of switching consoles on the client, but let's not go there yet. The other possibility would be setting up a minimal x environment which I could run rdesktop in. I don't know though what are the minimum packages required for this in debian, and how much of a challenge it would be to launch rdesktop, and exit from it without something like orca. Any Thoughts? Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/MdIwACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyCgWwCgkc8AYGFhvc3F0n98PQu4/oKU 2QEAn2LzjreLBzIBWCHXYvSoU784rIAh =eeRD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
