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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layou
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically |
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Thu, 4 Dec 2014 17:46:22 +0800 |
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On 2014/12/4 16:47, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Hum.. Now, I encountered this situation that the common clienteles just use
>> tightvnc client, but want to change keymap dynamically. As you say,
>> the only way address this scenario is doing it on the server side. So,
>> do you think this patch series make sense and consider to accept it
>> in upstream? Thanks!
>
> The alternatives are:
>
> * Try figure why they are using tightvnc. Do they simply don't know
> there are other vnc clients such as remote-viewer with much better
> keyboard support? Did they try other clients and want stick to
> tightvnc nevertheless? If so, what are the reasons?
>
As far as I can tell, they integrate tightvnc into a web page (tightvnc
realized by Java) as a jar file in Desktop Cloud scenario on windows guests.
I don't know virt-viewing/remote-viewer whether work well on windows
platform?
Regards,
-Gonglei
> * Try add raw scancode extension support to tightvnc (or the
> http://tigervnc.org/ fork).
>
> I see server-side keymap switching as last ressort if all other
> approaches failed, simply because the manual keymap configuration needed
> on the server side is error-prone and a pretty bad user experience.
>
> cheers,
> Gerd
>
>
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] keymaps: convert fprintf to qerror_report, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] keymaps: convert fprintf to qerror_report, arei.gonglei, 2014/12/03
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 1/6] vnc: introduce vnc_display_kbd_layout function, arei.gonglei, 2014/12/03
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 3/6] vnc: HMP change-vnc-kbd-layout wrapper, arei.gonglei, 2014/12/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically, Daniel P. Berrange, 2014/12/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically, Gonglei, 2014/12/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically, Gerd Hoffmann, 2014/12/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically, Gonglei, 2014/12/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically, Gerd Hoffmann, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically,
Gonglei <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically, Daniel P. Berrange, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically, Gonglei, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically, Gonglei, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically, Daniel P. Berrange, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] Support to change VNC keyboard layout dynamically, Gonglei, 2014/12/04