[Spice-devel] [patch 0/2] vdagent KEYVAL extension

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Thu Oct 10 17:06:27 CEST 2013


> If you really want to send scancode, do it the same way as "Data key_scancode"
> for arbitrary sequence.

will try.

> Why did you drop the flags in the end?

The information can be generated on the server side, so there is no real need
to send it over the wire.
 
> > Another advantage is that a client could request scancode generation
> > at server side.
> > This is useful for the javascript/java client, because they do not
> > have access to scancodes.
> >
> > The server (qemu) can synthesize the scancode from the keysym (code
> > for that already exists in qemu for vnc).
> 
> I think I understand what you mean, even though I think it becomes weird server
> cases...

The point is that we already have the code in qemu, and there is not really an other
solutions for the javascript client (or is there a better way to do it?).



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