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

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 05:02:56PM -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote:
> Em Sáb, 2008-05-10 às 09:53 -0300, Jonh Wendell escreveu:
> > Em Sáb, 2008-04-19 às 22:33 +0200, Alexander Bürger escreveu:
> > 
> > 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.

The patch from that bug is basically reverting to what we used to
do along while back. The problem was that you can end up with stuck
keys in the server depending on the order in which you released
the keys. eg, when pressing Alt_l, we'd send 'Press Alt_L' and later
when it was released, we'd send 'Release ISO_Prev_Group'. The result
was a 'stuck' Alt key in the server. 

I'll have to do some more investigation to see if there's any way
we can track these inconsistencies better, and guarentee to send
the correct matching 'Release' event in all cases.

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

Yes, definitely. A new release is  also well overdue, particularly WRT
the Windows portability code. I was thinking we should wait till the
new hosting was approved, but that's taking too long, so lets just do
another sf.net hosted release.

Daniel
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