[Python-apps-team] Bug#628773: xpra keyboard layout trouble

[Antoine Martin]

On 06/01/2011 04:21 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> [ Antoine, I'm sending a copy of my mails to
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628773 since your
> version of xpra does not have bug tracking system. If you wish to reply
> there you can just mail 628773 at bugs.debian.org and Cc: me.]
It will have a bug tracking system by the end of today.
(once the source is re-imported properly with full change history)


> Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> writes:
>> That's interesting, the solution we were thinking of using involved
>> using setxkbmap:
>> "setxkbmap -print" on the client (but not in an xpra window)
>> then piping this data to "| xkbcomp - $DISPLAY" on the server.
> 
> Like this?
(snip)
> which is an improvement but still not very usable (I really need the
> pipe character).

Unless someone can come up with a better scheme, I think we will merge
this simple code as it seems to improve things somewhat. What do you think?

It seems such a trivial thing to do, I can't believe there isn't a way
to make this all work. It will probably take someone with a better
understanding of X11 keyval/keymap/xkbcomp to get it done though :(

Cheers
Antoine