Bug 525442
| Summary: | "Caps Lock is on." warning on the password screen when doing vnc installation | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Jan Stodola <jstodola> | ||||
| Component: | tigervnc | Assignee: | Adam Tkac <atkac> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, atkac, atorkhov, ddumas, jlaska, mbanas, ovasik, rwilliam | ||||
| Target Milestone: | alpha | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | tigervnc-1.0.90-0.1.20100115svn3945.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2010-01-22 09:16:24 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for inclusion. *** Bug 527977 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** The problem here is that Xvnc does not support the Xkb extension, therefore XkbGetState is returning the state variable we gave it unmodified, which just so happens to have a 1 in the right slot. I can make it so we clear this variable out before calling XkbGetState so the lack of a caps lock message is correct, but pressing caps lock won't cause the message to appear until the extension is supported. (In reply to comment #3) > The problem here is that Xvnc does not support the Xkb extension, therefore > XkbGetState is returning the state variable we gave it unmodified, which just > so happens to have a 1 in the right slot. I can make it so we clear this > variable out before calling XkbGetState so the lack of a caps lock message is > correct, but pressing caps lock won't cause the message to appear until the > extension is supported. Actually in the VNC world (RFB protocol, to be precise) there is no CapsLock. RFB protocol states no CapsLock key can be sent from viewer to server. When you press CapsLock on the client followed by a key client only sends "X11 keysym" to the server (there are different keysyms for lower and upper cases). Thus "CapsLock is on" doesn't make sence on the server side at all in the vnc case. Adding anaconda-maint-list to CC. Check my comment #4, please. Fixed in tigervnc-1.0.90-0.1.20100115svn3945.el6. In this version Xvnc finally supports XKB and no warning is printed. |
Created attachment 362479 [details] screenshot Description of problem: On the screen for entering password is warning "Caps Lock is on." and there is no way how to turn it off (see screenshot). This is only when doing vnc installation on ppc64 arch, GUI installation does not have this issue. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL6.0-20090923.2, anaconda-12.29-1, ppc64, vnc installation TigerVNC Viewer for X version 0.0.91 - built Aug 14 2009 09:54:10 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start vnc installation for example: boot kernel+initrd with installer from previously installed F11 add "vnc" boot option 2. use vncviever to connect and continue with the installation 3. on the password screen see warning Actual results: "Caps Lock is on." warning, no matter what the state of CapsLock is. (switching caps lock on installed system or remote system has no effect) Expected results: no warning is shown when caps lock is off