From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ewan Mellor Subject: Re: 3.0.3 without X Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:48:29 +0000 Message-ID: <20070104194829.GA15265@leeni.uk.xensource.com> References: <13426df10701040658x642246e7y555377ff7499d381@mail.gmail.com> <20070104153202.GB9172@leeni.uk.xensource.com> <459D5661.6020004@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <459D5661.6020004@codemonkey.ws> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Anthony Liguori Cc: ron minnich , xen-devel , jason List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:32:49PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Ewan Mellor wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:01:08PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote: > > > >>On 4/1/07 14:58, "ron minnich" wrote: > >> > >>>note that we're distributing an x11-free xen for plan 9 support, so I > >>>sure hope that x11 dependencies are not about to start appearing in > >>>xen. > >>The dependencies are only in HVM-specific bits of the tools/ directory. > >>Those are easily disabled, albeit with a smidgen of Makefile changes. > > > >They also aren't really X11 dependencies. That code includes > >, because VNC uses the same keysyms as X, but there's no > >dependency upon X client libraries. > > This dependency is actually a bug that was introduced in the Xen tree > (it isn't present in qemu CVS). > > The VNC spec makes it pretty clear that you cannot rely on the symbolic > names of X keycodes to develop a portable VNC client. Apparently they > change slightly across different X implementations. >>From www.realvnc.com/docs/rfbproto.pdf: "The key itself is specified using the "keysym" values defined by the X Window System. For most ordinary keys, the "keysym" is the same as the corresponding ASCII value. For full details, see The Xlib Reference Manual, published by O'Reilly & Associates, or see the header file from any X Window System installation." How do we choose which X keysyms to use, if they vary across X implementations? Ewan.