Hi ----- Original Message ----- > Hi Marc-André, > > On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 20:15 +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > Hi > > > > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Pavel Grunt <pgrunt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This patches introduces and uses a spice-gtk-session property > > > for disabling automatic modifiers sync. It can be useful in cases > > > where syncing currently fails - eg not working leds on the guest side, > > > missmatch between client's and guest's keyboard layout. > > > > Is this a guest configuration issue? > > It is a server/client/guest issue. > > Guest issue: > Checking the led state for modifiers does not always work (it doesn't work in > vte in RHEL7) -> causes server to send "requests to sync modifiers" -> > capslock is on for few seconds, then is off, then is on... That's a guest bug then, is there a bug for it? > Server: > Server sends the "hw value" of the capslock key to the guest, but for example > Japanese layout has "shift+capslock" to turn on capslock. So the server > should send "shift + capslock" instead. ok, that sound like a server bug for japanese keyboard > Client: > It just keeps syncing, it is not great if everything works ok. But maybe > would be reasonable to stop trying to sync when it does not work. You mean "it is great", right? ;) > I plan to implement some solution involving the agent (gdk can tell us the > state of capslock, keycombo for its activation etc). But for some users may > be reasonable to just disable syncing. > > > How are you going to expose this > > property to the user? It would look bad to add some weird tweaks like > > that to the UI. > > > I added the checkbox to spicy just to test it. We have more options - a > configuration file, the settings file... > > Pavel > > > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel > _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel