Bug 1781147 - Nova vnc_keymap "de" not working properly for a few special characters.
Summary: Nova vnc_keymap "de" not working properly for a few special characters.
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1484711
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Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Classification: Red Hat
Component: novnc
Version: 13.0 (Queens)
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
Target Milestone: z11
: 13.0 (Queens)
Assignee: Martin Schuppert
QA Contact: nlevinki
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Depends On: 1484711 1765626
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-12-09 12:20 UTC by Srinivas Atmakuri
Modified: 2023-09-07 21:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: novnc-1.1.0-2.el7ost
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Last Closed: 2020-01-10 12:29:23 UTC
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Description Srinivas Atmakuri 2019-12-09 12:20:17 UTC
Description of problem:
Nova vnc_keymap "de" not working properly for a few special characters.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP-13)

How reproducible:
Every time 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add ExtraConfig ``vnc_keymap: de`` to be picked up hieradata 
2. Run Overcloud deploy command
3.

Actual results:
special characters on german keyboard running

Expected results:
special characters on german keyboard not running

Additional info:
 If you access an instance console, all special characters are working "ä" or "ö" but not the characters where you need the "Alt Gr" key (e.g. to type {} ord []). 

The characters not working are e.g. "[,  ],  |,  {,  }, \, ˜".

Comment 3 Martin Schuppert 2020-01-10 12:29:23 UTC
Reproduced with a RHEL 7.7 cloud image when switching keyboard to DE. Using characters where 'Alt Gr' is required just get the normal key.

Patching novnc proxy to have novnc 1.1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484711 and, we also need https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1765626.
With this characters like {}[]\@~| which require 'Alt Gr' work correct in the same above instance.

closing this BZ as a dupe of BZ1484711

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1484711 ***


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