Keysym event in the text protocol

[Bill Spitzak]

I am just going to have to study this further, because I am still 
completely stumped as to why so many people think this is an acceptable 
solution.

This sounds to me like either the ability to transmit an entire xkb 
description across the wire is added to the wayland protocol, or that 
there is a fake keyboard, not matching any real hardware, which can 
produce all possible keysyms and the "keycode" is simply an encoding method.

I have been repeatedly burned by NX getting the keyboard descriptions 
wrong, requiring me to run a *different* xmodmap depending on the host I 
am calling in from, so I do not consider this a theoretical question.

On 07/28/2014 02:57 AM, Hardening wrote:

> Not sure to understand about RDP. In RDP the the client sends some
> informations describing the layout, and sent keycodes are in fact
> "virtual keycodes" that are to be interpreted regarding the layout (not
> even talking of different kind of keyboards mac / pc). That's why in the
> RDP compositor we try to find a nice xkb file for a given RDP layout (so
> keycodes will be translated to evdev layout at the end).
>
> Regards.
>