Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] gtk-vnc and AltGr

[Jonh Wendell <jwendell gnome org>]

Em Sáb, 2008-05-10 às 09:53 -0300, Jonh Wendell escreveu:
> Em Sáb, 2008-04-19 às 22:33 +0200, Alexander Bürger escreveu:
> > Hi Anthony,
> > 
> > > Alexander Bürger wrote:
> > > >>> I am no expert in key handling, I just press and release ;-) and I see
> > > >>> that AltGr combinations do not work in the packaged state
> > > >>> (0.3.4-0ubuntu1). But with the attached "patch" I can also type, e.g.,
> > > >>> AltGr+q to get an @ into the vnc session, as expected.
> > > >   
> > > >> ... problem still exist in 0.3.5 (packages are in Debian)? At least the
> > > >> gdk_keymap_translate_keyboard_state does look the same there.
> > > >
> > > > I compiled debian package sources 0.3.5-2 with "./configure
> > > > --prefix=/tmp --without-python" and then run "./examples/gvncviewer".
> > > > Then: no patch => no {[\ ]}, with patch => {[\ ]} all come.
> > 
> > > What server are you connecting to?  0.3.5 has a bunch of key handling 
> > > fixes so if the problem still exists with 0.3.5, then it's a bug.
> > 
> > I tried with "vnc4server"s (version 4.1.1) running on Debian/Ubuntu.
> > 
> > Alexander
> 
> People are telling that patch works for them:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499804
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vinagre/+bug/212013
> 
> So, can we just commit it?
> 
> Cheers,

Ping on this; people are still complaining about this issue.

I am one of the affected by this bug. Without this patch, I'm unable to
send keys with AltGR modifier. With it applied, everything worked for
me. I've made some tests and it worked fine. No regressions detected.

So, it would be nice to have this fixed for 0.3.8.

Comments?

Thanks,
-- 
Jonh Wendell
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