From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54 [de] Description of problem: The "Alt Gr" key on international keyboards (needed for the Euro symbol or the @ sign for example) does not work when accessing a vnc server fedora box from a windows vnc client. Verfied with the original vnc client from Real VNC and with the tightvnc client. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vnc-4.0-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install vnc-server 2. add a 'Load "vnc"' to the Module section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf 3. configure vnc password 4. connect to the vnc server with either the Real VNC client or the tightvnc client Actual Results: When I press "AltGr-e" I get an "e" in the remote application. Expected Results: I should get an "€". Additional info:
Please try to reproduce the bug with the newest version of vnc (fc4 or rawhide).
I got same here using Server side: Fedora Core 4 with vnc-server-4.1.1-10.1 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 Client side: Windows 2000 with vncviewer.exe 4.1.1 Keyboard layout: German Main problem is that neither "@" nor "|" (some not so unimportant chars) won't be transmitted. @Okke, can you please change version from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4
Note that using FC4 with vnc-4.1.1-10.1 as client (German Keyboard), the AltGr characters are transmitted. Looks like it is a Windows-to-Linux issue.
Perhaps here some hints, but I don't know how to specify -xfb in /etc/X11/xorg.conf http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/#faq-altgr http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/#faq-remap-opt
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@reporter: can you at least change the version to FC4? I will run some tests next days to see, whether this problem exists also on FC5.
I can confirm that this issue still exists using VNC client 4.1.2 on Windows and vnc-server-4.1.1-39.fc5 on Linux server side. @reporter: please change version to FC5
Moving to FC5 as per comment #7.
(marking as info provided. is it my imagination, or is that checkbox not always working?)
Which checkbox?
hmm, It seems that problem isn't in linux vncserver, but in windows viewer. Through that, could you check if problem still exists with vncserver version 4.1.2- series, please?? thanks much
Same happen using vnc-viewer 4.1.2 on Windows 2000 and vnc-server 4.1.2 on Fedora Core 6 side. @reporter: please change version to FC6 - thank you
Fedora Core 6 is no longer maintained. Is this bug still present in Fedora 8?
Yes, still the same issue using vnc-server-4.1.2-23.fc8 on server and the 4.1.2 viewer on Windows XP @Reporter: please change version to Fedora 8
Same happen using vncviewer from UltraVNC 1.0.2 on Windows
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moving to rawhide & assigned
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Created attachment 332901 [details] Fix the problem for a Danish keyboard The patch fixes the problem for a Danish keyboard. With this patch, alt-gr and dead keys work.
(In reply to comment #19) > Created an attachment (id=332901) [details] > Fix the problem for a Danish keyboard > > The patch fixes the problem for a Danish keyboard. > > With this patch, alt-gr and dead keys work. Patch is for builtin server inside kvm and fixes problem only when you are connecting to kvm virtual machine. I will clone this bug against kvm, this bug tracks problem with Xvnc.
I'm not sure if the bug has been cloned already, but the alt gr key definitely does not work when trying to use a Polish keyboard layout in a Fedora rawhide kvm guest and Fedora 10 host. The default console is via vnc, I believe.
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TigerVNC in Fedora 13 has reworked keyboard related code and this issue should be finally solved there. If you still have problems with the latest tigervnc-server package please reopen this bug.
With tigervnc-1.0.90-0.10.20100420svn4030.fc13.x86_64, only some of the characters are reaching the VM. For instance, out of the zażółć gęślą jaźń pangram, only ó is getting through.
(In reply to comment #24) > TigerVNC in Fedora 13 has reworked keyboard related code and this issue should > be finally solved there. If you still have problems with the latest > tigervnc-server package please reopen this bug. I'm running both client and server on two Fedora machines. I just upgraded both to use tigervnc and tigervnc-server version 1.0.90-0.11.20100420svn4030.fc14. Alt-gr still doesn't work so this has not been fixed. I have a Swedish keyboard but I expect it has a lot in common with the Danish one.
I can confirm Thomas's report: I'm also running Fedora release 13 (Goddard) on both client and server with tigervnc-1.0.90-0.11.20100420svn4030.fc13.i686 installed on client tigervnc-server-1.0.90-0.11.20100420svn4030.fc13.i686 installed on server and I'm also unable to get special characters (@ = at-character, backslash, ...) working when using the German keyboard layout.
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Reopening, this issue is still present.
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Some update during last two weeks broke my previously working Fedora 13 system. Alt Gr key does not work like before. Using Tigervnc 1.0.1 Windows client.
I just tested it with libvirt/qemu: Fedora 14 guest on a Fedora 13 host seem to work. tigervnc-1.0.90-0.13.20100420svn4030.fc13.x86_64
Windows 7 guest on Fedora 14 host also works. tigervnc-1.0.90-0.22.20100813svn4123.fc14.x86_64
Is there any progress on this one? It worked fine for me running tigervnc on a Fedora 11 box, but when upgrading to 12 it stopped working. Upgrading to Fedora 13 didn't help. I've tried several VNC clients on both Fedora; TigerVNC/vinagre and Windows; TigerVNC/TightVNC, but they all have the same problem with AltGr keystrokes. I'm using a Swedish keyboard and the AltGr key is used to type several common characters like @, | and \. Downgrading tigervnc to those provided with Fedora 11 works (after also installing older openssl stuff) but is not a good solution since I have to uncheck tigervnc* every time the Software Updater announces updated packages. Also, I occasionally get some problems with the screensaver. Is there any type of information I could provide that would help to shed some light on this issue? Logs, configuration files, output from some other command/utility?
Found a workaround for this case. In Keyboard Preferences Layouts tab first selected Reset to Deafults and then brought back my correct keyboard layout (Finland in my case). Now Alt Gr works again.
I can confirm that the workaround also works with German keyboard. Is there any way to automate the reset of the keyboard layout, so that it will be performed every time someone logs in?
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BTW, I know this bug is closed but I'm still seeing this problem in F18 , so it definitely hasn't been fixed. And in Gnome 3 the keyboard preferences doesn't seem to have a "Reset To Defaults" so I can't use the work-around that was talked about either.
Well, I saw that the vnc server was updated recently so I made sure I updated my system to the latest versions of all packages and now it works (except for the euro sign on the E, but I can live with that)
Hello, today i have installed my new Wokstation 3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64 an the Problem with the Alt-Gr is back, all Updates are installed but the Alt-Gr Key dosn´t work :( My old Fedora 16 64Bit don´t have this Problem until is was fixed in the history. I use on Fedora 18 Tigervnc: tigervnc-server-1.2.80-0.10.20130314svn5065.fc18.x86_64 Can You please fix it Thanks Dirk