[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#583534: Bug#583534: virt-manager: Seriously fucked up keyboard layout in VNC

[Guido Günther]

Hi Cole,
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:25:16AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 05/28/2010 03:52 AM, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> > Package: virt-manager
> > Version: 0.8.4-2
> > Severity: important
> > Justification: essential characters may be unavailable
> > 
> > Heyho!
> > 
> > The host system has a swiss german keyboard.  On the guest, I tested
> > both specifying us or also sg keyboard.  Either way, the result is
> > nothing like it should, which is extremely annoying since several
> > essential keys (slash, backslash, ...) are either not mapped anywhere I
> > could find them or in completely unexpected places.  I guess the
> > keycodes are remapped twice or sometihng like that.
> > 
> > Specifying us in the vm is closer to correct, but:
> >  -> / becomes ?
> >  -> $ becomes 4
> >  -> ^, ~, ` are unavailable (key does nothing)
> > 
> > All characters that need AltGr are unavailable.
> > 
> > This means for example that I can't enter an URL to a local Debian
> > mirror.  And during the installation there's no ssh yet ...
> > 
> 
> virt-manager is buggy with trying to set the keymap. This commit should
> fix it with reasonably new qemu:
> 
> http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/virt-manager/rev/99cf13a133f3
That one adds the conn info to VirtualGraphics. How would this affect
the keyboard handling?

There seem to be heeps of fixes in HG, would it make sense to release a
new minor versions to reduce the number of reports about things fixed
upstream?
Cheers,
 -- Guido