[Spice-devel] Keyboard layout change on Xspice

[Michael Niehren]

Hi Alon,

after setting up "setxkbmap de" i got the german keyboard, great. 2 issues are left, the 
ALT and ALT-GR Key's do not work as expected, so specially i could not type the "|" Symbol 
with ALT-GR and "<". Do you also have a solution for that problem ?
I see in the Logs of Xspice the following:
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>                   Ignoring extra symbols


And one left question. I want to get an KDM-Login Screen after connection with the spice 
client. So on the server, i have setuped a normal X11-Server with kdm to which anyone can 
make an XDMCP-Session. After that i started the Xspice Server with the following options:

  Xspice :1 --port 15000 --disable-ticketing -noreset -query <Server-IP>

So i got the Login-Prompt with the KDM-Login Screen. But the Keyboard layout is in 
english. How should i set the "setxkbmap de" in this setup ?

Greetings,
  Michael


On Thursday 05 April 2012 17:58:03 you wrote: 
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 01:24:54PM +0200, Michael Niehren wrote:
> > Hi together,
> > 
> > i successfully installed and connected to Xspice und FC16, great work, i was very 
pleased 
> > to see, what's possible with spice.
> > 
> > 1 thing left to use it as an Server to connect from my thin client is the keyboard 
layout.
> > As i live in Germany i want to have the german keyboard layout. If i connect with the 
> > spice-client i only got the english one. Is there a way to change that (i didn's find 
one) 
> > ?
> 
> (Continuing my previous reply). OK - tried a non english keyboard
> (hebrew), and it works fine. The thing to understand is that changing
> the keyboard mapping on the client doesn't affect the server - only
> changes on the server side affect it. So to get a german keyboard, you'd
> need to change the keyboard on the remote side, the server, for instance
> I just used "setxkbmap il" to change the keymap to the hebrew one on the
> remote side.
> 
> > 
> > greetings,
> >   Michael
> > 
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