[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#701097: virt-manager: No keyboard with Spice

[intrigeri]

Control: retitle -1 No keyboard with Spice when using some hand-crafted keyboard layout on the host

Hi,

Alexey Feldgendler wrote (24 Oct 2014 19:13:39 GMT) :
> You are absolutely right: my custom XKB configuration is causing the
> bug. I tried starting without it, and keyboard worked.

OK, thanks. Retitling accordingly.

> xkbcomp -I$HOME/.xkb $HOME/.xkb/keymap $DISPLAY

I do something similar here (using xmodmap, though), and it works for
me. So, to see this bug fixed, it would be good to pinpoint what exact
part of your setup breaks the detection logic.

> How does the layout detection work?

I'm no C programmer, so I'm afraid I can't help on that one.

Cheers,
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intrigeri