Re: [Qemu-devel] vnc with german keymap

["Eduardo Felipe" <edusaper@gmail.com>]

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Hi,

Some time ago I made a patch to handle keyboard localization for vnc:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-08/msg00129.html

It is outdated and most probably won't apply to current CVS, but with some
tweaking it can improve things a bit.

Regads,
Eduardo Felipe


2007/7/4, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>:
>
> Hi!
>
> I got a report yesterday of -vnc not working right with german
> keymaps (I hadn't really played with -vnc yet so I hadn't noticed),
> and came up with the following hack: (which still needs -k de,
> that just wasn't enough)
>
> Index: qemu/vnc.c
> @@ -763,7 +763,31 @@
> {
>      int keycode;
>
> +#if 1
> +    /* XXX fixup some de keysyms (use with -k de) */
> +    if ((sym & 0xffff) == 0xfe03)    /* Alt_Gr -> Alt_R */
> +       sym = 0xffea;
> +    if ((sym & 0xffff) == 0xfe50)    /* grave */
> +       sym = '`';
> +#if 0
> +    if ((sym & 0xffff) == 0xfe51)    /* '/acute (gets mixed up with #) */
> +       sym = '\'';
> +#endif
> +    if ((sym & 0xffff) == 0xfe52)    /* asciicircum */
> +       sym = '^';
> +    if ((sym & 0xffff) == 0xfe53)    /* asciitilde */
> +       sym = '~';
> +#endif
>      keycode = keysym2scancode(vs->kbd_layout, sym & 0xFFFF);
> +#if 1
> +    /* '/acute key needs special treatment */
> +    if (!keycode && (sym & 0xffff) == 0xfe51)    /* acute */
> +       keycode = 0xd;
> +#endif
> +#ifdef VNCDEBUGKEYS
> +    printf("do_key_event down %d, sym 0x%x, keycode 0x%x\n",
> +       down, (int) sym, keycode);
> +#endif
>
>      /* QEMU console switch */
>      switch(keycode) {
>
> I wasn't able to fix this by editing vnc_keysym.h and/or keymaps
> because those dont take duplicate definitions, but this is certainly
> `somewhat' ugly; anyone care to fix it for real? :)
>
> Thanx,
>         Juergen
>
>
>

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