Bug 1169286 – Incorrect shift key behaviour

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Bug 1169286 - Incorrect shift key behaviour

Summary:	Incorrect shift key behaviour

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	mingw-virt-viewer (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	3.5.0
Hardware:	x86_64 Windows

Priority	medium Severity medium
Target Milestone:	ovirt-3.6.0-rc
Target Release:	3.6.0
Assigned To:	Pavel Grunt
QA Contact:	SPICE QE bug list
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URL:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug...
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Reported:	2014-12-01 04:14 EST by Tim Speetjens
Modified:	2016-03-09 15:04 EST (History)
CC List:	13 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, the shift keys behaved incorrectly on Windows machines accessed with virt-viewer. When both shift keys were pressed at the same time and then released, Windows sent only one release key event, causing the SPICE client to think the other shift key is still pressed, and the guest to input capital letters. This has been fixed so GDK sends an extra release event so that both shift keys are released, and guest input is as expected.
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Last Closed:	2016-03-09 15:04:41 EST
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oVirt Team:	Spice
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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHEA-2016:0377	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	rhevm-spice-client bug fix and enhancement update	2016-03-09 19:39:05 EST

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Description Tim Speetjens 2014-12-01 04:14:02 EST

Description of problem:
Shift key behaviour is incorrect when pressing both left and right shift key together.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mingw virt-viewer 0.6.0

How reproducible:
Open a virt-viewer console from a windows workstation (to ex. a RHEL guest)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press and hold left shift
2. Type a few letters: these are in caps
3. Press and hold right shift
4. Release left shift
5. Type a few letters: these are in caps
6. Release right shift
7. Type a few letters : these are also in caps, despite not holding down any shift key

Actual results:
As described in step 7: characters are in uppercase, when no shift key is pressed

Expected results:
Characters should be in lowercase

Additional info:
This issue exists in the mingw version of the viewer, but is not present on the gtk version.

Comment 1 Tim Speetjens 2014-12-01 04:16:44 EST

Also, the same can be observed when doing the same, but exchanging left and right shift keys:

1. Press and hold right shift
2. Type a few letters: these are in caps
3. Press and hold left shift
4. Release right shift
5. Type a few letters: these are in caps
6. Release left shift
7. Type a few letters : these are also in caps, despite not holding down any shift key

Comment 2 Marc-Andre Lureau 2014-12-01 04:32:46 EST

upstream bug 77259. imho, prio/severity could be low.

Comment 3 Yaniv Lavi 2015-07-08 05:56:55 EDT

What is the status of this issue?

Comment 4 Fabiano Fidêncio 2015-07-08 06:52:52 EDT

(In reply to Yaniv Dary from comment #3)
> What is the status of this issue?

We depend on a upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751721
If it gets accepted there, the patch will be backported for the mingw-gtk package and included in the next build.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 15:04:41 EST

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2016-0377.html

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