Howdy Erik,
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 09:22:02PM +0200, Erik Rull wrote:
Fabian Holler wrote:
I just want to route all keypresses to the guest without interfering with
the native QEMU key layout. Is that possible?
Yes, if you start kvm without the "-k" option and use a linux VNC client that
supports RFB extended key events (eg gtk-vnc, tigervnc).
With the extension the keyboard layout only depends on the OS settings in the
VM.
I tried tigervnc and tightvnc for Windows - which both advertise the
feature on their website
I can't find anything on the tightvnc webpage about QEMU extended key events.
My information about tigervnc was wrong. Tigervnc doesn't implemented the
extended key events.
Its problematic in java because you can't get the original key codes in the JVM.
There is this tigervnc fork which adds extended key events:
https://github.com/jakobadam/vnc
But it only sends the code for that key that triggers the character on a
keyboard with danish layout. :)
- same issues as I have with UltraVNC - no
AltGr combinations and no "Umlaute" available.
I need a Windows VNC client that can handle that - do you know a vnc
client that can do that?
No, sorry :-)
How does the QEMU VNC server receive the key
presses? In the same manner as the direct way does by getting scancodes or
via "real" characters?
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/more-than-you-or-i-ever-wanted-to-know-about-virtual-keyboard-handling/
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/07/04/a-summary-of-scan-code-key-codes-sets-used-in-the-pc-virtualization-stack/
Really interesting - Linux works, Windows doesn't :-( Also when
using a Linux remote X-Windows (via SSH tunnel) on my Windows PC it
works - only the plain Windows VNC client corrupts the
keypresses....
Seems that no VNC client exists that sends the Windows virtual key code
as RFB/VNC key code to the VNC server.
regards
Fabian