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

[Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder]

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 ...

cheers
-- vbi


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  librsvg2-common               2.26.3-1   SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  python                        2.5.4-9    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-dbus                   0.83.1-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-glade2                 2.17.0-2   GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2                 2.28.1-1   Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk-vnc                0.3.10-6   A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (Pyth
ii  python-gtk2                   2.17.0-2   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-libvirt                0.8.1-1    libvirt Python bindings
ii  python-support                1.0.8      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-urlgrabber             3.1.0-5    A high-level cross-protocol url-gr
ii  python-vte                    1:0.24.1-1 Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii  virtinst                      0.500.3-1  Programs to create and clone virtu

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  libvirt-bin                   0.8.1-1    the programs for the libvirt libra

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  virt-viewer                   0.2.1-1    Displaying the graphical console o

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