[Spice-devel] Keyboard layout change on Xspice

[Marian Krcmarik]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alon Levy" <alevy at redhat.com>
> To: "Michael Niehren" <michael at niehren.de>
> Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Friday, April 6, 2012 8:54:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] Keyboard layout change on Xspice
> 
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 11:49:35PM +0200, Michael Niehren wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> Hmm, no. Please report this on bugzilla.redhat.com (xorg-x11-drv-qxl
> component - there is no Xspice component, just make sure to put
> Xspice
> in the subject).
May it be the same issue fixed by http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/commit/?id=33be8633f5712062752efe75adc745130a72c4c2 ? Michael do you use spicec or the spice-gtk based client? Could you try spice-gtk client (spicy or virt-viewer)? I haven't tried Xspice by myself but It may be the client issue.
> 
> > 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 ?
> 
> I don't know the answer either. But it sounds like something solvable
> with xorg.conf - Xspice defaults to passing "-config
> spiceqxl.xorg.conf"
> to the Xorg process (Xspice is just a python script that sets up
> environment variables, and execs Xorg). So you could edit that config
> file or setup a second one and append "-config myxorg.conf" (it will
> override the first -config). But wouldn't you want the keyboard
> layout
> to be changable? or is it always de since it has the same latin keys
> as
> english?
> 
> > 
> > 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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