Bug 476887

Summary: Altgr of French keyboard not working in the internal vnc client of virtmanager
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mathieu MILLET <fedo>
Component: qemuAssignee: Glauber Costa <gcosta>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: dwmw2, pb, virt-maint
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Description Mathieu MILLET 2008-12-17 18:51:44 UTC
Description of problem:
The Altgr key (of my french keyboard) is not supported in the internal vnc client of virtmanager.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-0.9.1-10.fc10.i386
FYI : 
libvirt-0.5.0-1.fc10.i386
virt-manager-0.6.0-5.fc10.i386
virt-top-1.0.3-2.fc10.i386
virt-viewer-0.0.3-3.fc10.i386
python-virtinst-0.400.0-5.fc10.noarch
libvirt-python-0.5.0-1.fc10.i386
kmod-kqemu-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686-1.3.0-0.42.fc10.11.i686
kqemu-1.3.0-0.8.pre11.fc10.noarch
kmod-kqemu-1.3.0-0.42.fc10.11.i686
kmod-kqemu-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686-1.3.0-0.42.fc10.9.i686
akmod-kqemu-1.3.0-0.42.fc10.9.i686
qemu-img-0.9.1-10.fc10.i386

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use a french keyboard
2. Create a VM with "kvm-qemu"
3. try to type "Euro sign" or any letter composed with altgr key ('#', '|', ...) 
  
Actual results:
1. Keys are typed as the altgr key wasn't pressed

Expected results:
Right keys should have been typed

Additional info:
A small patch that seems to correct this issue, have already been submitted to qemu devel list :
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-11/msg00116.html

Comment 1 Mathieu MILLET 2008-12-17 19:04:01 UTC
Created attachment 327276 [details]
Patch already submitted to qemu-devel list

Comment 2 Mathieu MILLET 2008-12-17 19:23:47 UTC
Created attachment 327278 [details]
with the right syntax

Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2009-05-07 12:12:47 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2009-05-07 16:38:21 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 5 Peter Bieringer 2009-05-22 07:14:58 UTC
Same issue hits me, too, with a German keyboard at the host. Looks like this is related to the native VNC client, which as afaik same problems in Linux.

Comment 6 Peter Bieringer 2009-05-25 21:28:40 UTC
Just note that after upgrading to F11 and libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11, AltGr works as expected on the virtual console at least with German keyboard layout.

Comment 7 Mathieu MILLET 2009-07-09 13:18:44 UTC
Right.

Corrected with F11. ==> Closed