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Description of problem: keyboard mapping resets to default keyboard in vncserver Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install tiger vncserver and configure for user test on server A. 2. Change keyboard keycode by xmodmap xmodmap -e "keycode 29=z" 3. Now from other system client B connect to server A via vncviewer Actual results: keyboard setting does not change Expected results: keyboard keymap should change Additional info:
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Please provide more details what behaviour is expected and the exact setup and sequence of commands used on the various hosts/clients. I tried this on an up-to-date RHEL 6.6 and as far as I can tell this is a feature, not a bug. tigervnc tries to map the keysym into a keycode to provide the right behaviour on the clients. This behaviour ensures that a client connecting with a qwerty keyboard layout on the host can use it as-is, and a client connecting with an azerty layout likewise. No reconfiguration of keyboards is thus necessary. This is a feature, to achieve the outcome expected in comment #1 you'd have to run the xmodmap on the machine the host vncviewer is running on, so that vncviewer sends 'z', not 'y'.