Bug#862870: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#862870: virt-viewer: doesn't seem to support XSendEvent

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi folks,

Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> (2017-08-01):
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 12:34:59PM -0300, Guido Günther wrote:
> > [ cc'ing the gtk+ maintainers ]
> > 
> > Hi,
> > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 01:44:41PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:40:22PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > > > Package: virt-viewer
> > > > Version: 1.0-1
> > > > Severity: important
> > > > 
> > > > [ x-d-cc: debian-boot at lists.debian.org ]
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Trying to use xdotool (either on the command line or through its xdo
> > > > python bindings) fails when sending key events to a specific virt-viewer
> > > > window. In this case, XSendEvent is used instead of XTEST, which doesn't
> > > > seem to be supported by virt-viewer, and anything sent this way is
> > > > ignored.
> > > 
> > > Is there a simple one liner to test this?
> > 
> > It seems this is not working for any gtk+3 application. While xterm
> > works as described in the xdotool manpage a simple:
> > 
> >     zenity --entry --title xsendeventtest &
> >     xdotool type  --window $(xdotool search "xsendeventtest") asdf
> > 
> > does not work here either. Maybe the gtk+ maintainers have and idea how
> > to get this working?
> > 
> > > > It's possible to raise the virt-viewer window and then send key events
> > > > without specifying a target window, which is implemented using XTEST in
> > > > xdotool, but that means messing up with the focus in the surrounding
> > > > window environment, which is highly impractical.
> > > > 
> > > > I've also tried switching from default spice to vnc, still no luck. No
> > > > changes when I tried 5.0-1 from a sid chroot.
> > > > 
> > > > Any help/suggestion welcome, it prevents me from automating d-i tests
> > > > with libvirt. (While they do run fine with a “bare” kvm.)
> > 
> > Can you point me to the code you run the tests with? You should be able
> > to use the same mechanism with libvirt as without it.
> > Cheers,
> 
> Have you considered using virsh send-key to inject the key presses
> inside the guest?

Sorry, I'm failing to find time to follow up properly to this bug
report, but I'll definitely check virsh send-key when I get back to
testing this kind of things. Thanks for the suggestion and sorry for
the lag…


KiBi.
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