[ovirt-users] Keyboard mapping VNC

[Michal Skrivanek]

> On 28 Apr 2016, at 12:53, Jonas Israelsson <jonas.israelsson at elementary.se> wrote:
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> On 2016-04-28 12:31, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
>>> On 28 Apr 2016, at 10:32, Jonas Israelsson <jonas.israelsson at elementary.se> wrote:
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>>>>> I've tested now also with a hosted engine setup. Can't see there either that the keyboard layout information set in the web-ui ever reaches the VM.
>>>> That should work. HE is a bit different, and noVNC client doesn't support keymaps properly, but you should see it in xml
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>>>> Does spice work? Any special reason you can't use it?
>>> Spice does work. I do however prefer a web based console, and  the spice based is in a very sorry state.
>> indeed, but bear in mind the noVnc client is also not so great on keyboard mappings anyway. Swedish might be ok, but if it is not, then please rather check with standalone client
> Right, but after the keyboard map actually being used, tweaks to the mapping can be done, to make the experience 'quite pleasant'. In fact the only thing missing right now (with a swedish layout) is the recognition of the <alt gr> key. That to works with native the native client.
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> There is as you probably know an old issue to NoVNC, that was brought back to life just a few months ago. To my understanding addressing this issue
> https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/issues/21

ah, there’s quite some activity recently. sounds good