[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#692220: Bug#692220: libgtk-vnc-2.0-0: custom keyboard (ctrl:nocaps) not taken into account

[Guido Günther]

Hi Luca,
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 05:21:56PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> Package: libgtk-vnc-2.0-0
> Version: 0.5.1-1
> Severity: normal
> Usertags: pca.it-virtualization
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> The Ctrl-left key on my ThinkPad X60 is broken, thus I re-mapped it to
> CapsLock in /etc/default/keyboard, see:
> 
>   <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621835#83>
> 
> However, virt-viewer does not like it and it obliges me to use the
> broken Ctrl-left key.  The same happens with gvncviewer, thus reported
> it to libgtk-vnc ;-)

Sorry for the late reply. As far as I understand Gtk-VNC it uses the
"hardware keycode" so the remapping will pass unnoticed (see
./src/vncdisplaykeymap_xorgevdev2rfb.c). Does it work if you remap in
the VM?
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.6-trunk-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 libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 depends on:
> ii  libatk1.0-0         2.4.0-2
> ii  libc6               2.13-36
> ii  libcairo-gobject2   1.12.2-2
> ii  libcairo2           1.12.2-2
> ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.0-3
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
> ii  libgnutls26         2.12.20-1
> ii  libgpg-error0       1.10-3.1
> ii  libgtk-3-0          3.4.2-4
> ii  libgvnc-1.0-0       0.5.1-1
> ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
> ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.25.dfsg1-6
> ii  libx11-6            2:1.5.0-1
> ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
> 
> libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 recommends no packages.
> 
> libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information



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