Bug#879663: remmina: [regression] cannot type letters in Firefox in VMware vSphere Web Client in console views

[Paul Wise]

Package: remmina
Version: 1.2.0-rcgit.21-1
Severity: important

I use remmina to connect to a Windows Server 2012 R2 system that runs
Firefox 56.0.1 and connects to a VMware vSphere Web Client (both Flash and HTML5).

If I then choose a virtual machine (either Windows or Debian) and click
the Open Console action to view the console of a VM, I cannot type
anything to login.

remmina 1.2.0-rcgit.20-4 from snapshot.d.o does not have this problem.
 Chrome and Internet Explorer do not have this problem.

If I login using Chrome/IE then switch back to Firefox after logging in
 I can't type but see the enter, backspace, delete, arrow keys work.

There is nothing present on the remmina stdout/stderr or debug window.

I confirmed using Debian input-utils the keys are not reaching the VM.

I noticed that the Firefox debug console has errors like this:

Extraction of keyCode from keyUp event failed.

With the older version of remmina, this gets printed instead:

key: 97-down-vScanCode:30
key: 97-up-vScanCode:30

These messages are from the VMware client JavaScript.

I tried debugging the (jQuery based) minified VMware client JavaScript
and as far as I can tell, the keyCode is zero with the new version of
remmina and 65 for 'a' in the old version of remmina.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages remmina depends on:
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]  1.11.20-1
ii  libappindicator3-1           0.4.92-5
ii  libatk1.0-0                  2.26.0-2
ii  libavahi-client3             0.7-3
ii  libavahi-common3             0.7-3
ii  libavahi-ui-gtk3-0           0.7-3
ii  libc6                        2.24-17
ii  libcairo2                    1.14.10-1
ii  libgcrypt20                  1.7.9-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0           2.36.11-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.54.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                   3.22.24-2
ii  libice6                      2:1.0.9-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0               1.40.12-1
ii  libsm6                       2:1.2.2-1+b3
ii  libssh-4                     0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38-1
ii  libvte-2.91-0                0.50.1-1
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxext6                     2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  remmina-common               1.2.0-rcgit.21-1

Versions of packages remmina recommends:
ii  remmina-plugin-rdp  1.2.0-rcgit.21-1
ii  remmina-plugin-vnc  1.2.0-rcgit.21-1

remmina suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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