Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:11:06 -0800 (PST) From: Hubert Tournier <hubert@frbsd.org> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] VirtualBox headless VNC support by LibVNCServer Message-ID: <27676863.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <EF4FC9E60356421582CE72C0A3DF45B8@artemis> References: <18D68DBE18AC435984C5F66597A869D3@artemis> <27587832.post@talk.nabble.com> <EF4FC9E60356421582CE72C0A3DF45B8@artemis>
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Hello again, Daisuke Aoyama wrote: >=20 >> Do you know where this limitation comes from? Any idea? > I am testing only US 101 keys though 106 keys are main currents in our=20 > country. > I am using only US 101 :-) > I will check other keyboards a little more. >=20 It seems to be a very common problem with both VNC clients and servers, due to the way key events are handled in=20 http://www.realvnc.com/docs/rfbproto.pdf the RFB protocol (=C2=A76.4.4). As I've made my test with "the only client that handles all servers and all capabilities" (according to this article:=20 http://jorgenmodin.net/index_html/archive/2009/05/12/comparison-vnc-clients= -capabilities-including-alt-gr-characters-on-ubuntu-linux Comparison: VNC Clients capabilities including Alt Gr characters on Ubuntu Linux ) and still have this special keys problem, I think the way key event= s are handled should be modified. Searching a little bit, I found some examples with other "emulators" embedding a VNC server: - for Qemu: http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg11941.htm= l [Qemu-devel] [Patch] AltGr on vnc and adding extra keys with no compiling= =20 - for XEN:=20 http://old.nabble.com/-PATCH-0-of-2--Fix-keymap-handling-for-vnc-console-td= 20505033.html [PATCH 0 of 2] Fix keymap handling for vnc console ,=20 http://old.nabble.com/-PATCH-1-of-2--Fix-keymap-handling-for-vnc-console-td= 20505054.html#a20505054 [PATCH 1 of 2] , http://markmail.org/message/hgdtvtaaj7l66pwx [PATCH 2 of 2]=20 I'll try to have a look at these in the next weeks... Best regards, Hubert --=20 View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/-PATCH--VirtualBox-head= less-VNC-support-by-LibVNCServer-tp27288796p27676863.html Sent from the freebsd-emulation mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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