Description of problem: Originaly filed as: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501286 The VNC viewer used to show a xen guest's console doesn't handle AT-SPI events correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use virt-install to start a Xen HVM (para virt should do as well) installation 2. Wait for the VNC console to appear 3. start python 3. use dogtail.rawinput.pressKey(':') which sould generate a key press event at the VNC console 4. instead of colon ':' there appears a semi-colon ';' Actual results: VNC widget shows a semi-colon instead of colon Expected results: VNC widget shows the exact same characters as dogtail.rawinput instructs it to show. Additional info: Same behavior occurs with Fedora8/virt-viewer(GTK VNC widget) and RHEL5/vncviewer(vnc package).
I am still not sure if the bug is in the viewer or the underlying GTK/VNC widget.
Xorg + vnc extension works for me. So i think this is vnc related issue.
Can you tell me what keymap you have configured on your local X desktop, what keymap is configured inside the guest OS, and include the output of 'virsh dumpxml [name of guest]' for the guest that you are trying to view.
Created attachment 289867 [details] virsh dumpxml output > keymap configured inside the guest OS I'm not sure how do I tell. I hit the bug when booting the installation media. > keymap configured on your local X desktop Same here. I don't remember doing some speciffic settings in my GNOME session. Which file should I look for that? Additional info: I've tried both when running GNOME and when running Xvnc without anything else started. Hit the bug both times.
moving to at-spi component, since i'm pretty sure it's a bug in at-spi-registryd. VNC server doesn't support XKB extension, and at-spi-1.18.1/registryd/deviceeventcontroller.c contains this piece of code: static gboolean dec_lock_modifiers (SpiDEController *controller, unsigned modifiers) { return XkbLockModifiers (spi_get_display (), XkbUseCoreKbd, modifiers, modifiers); } So locking any modifier keys doesn't work through VNC.
provided a patch in the upstream bug, needs review though.
Michal provided custom build rpms for RHEL 5.1 and I verified that his patches work.
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