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Bug 111268 - gkb_xmmap messes up remote keyboard
gkb_xmmap messes up remote keyboard
Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: general
1.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-04-21 15:00 UTC by udippel
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4

Attachments
Diff-file of xmod for root and user for same keyboard (7.25 KB, patch)
2003-04-21 15:07 UTC, udippel 		none Details | Review

Description udippel 2003-04-21 15:00:02 UTC 
Maybe the wrong product ? - Didn't find any better place, sorry !
Problem: when gkb_xmmap is running, it completely messes up the remote
keyboard layout:
abcdefg   becomes
asdfghj

Running RH8.0 locally with default keyboard 'sg' shows correct layout for
remote keyboard for user root. 
For non-root users, the keyboards change, so they click the flag of the
applet on the panel. This works for *local* users.
The remote keyboard is however completely messed up, *irrespective* of the
settings or the remotely used layout.
The connection to remote is done by VNC. For any non-Gnome session this
works well. For Gnome it works after killing gkb_xmmap only.
Comment 1 udippel 2003-04-21 15:07:04 UTC 
Created attachment 15877 [details] [review]
Diff-file of xmod for root and user for same keyboard
Comment 2 Kjartan Maraas 2003-04-22 15:42:09 UTC 
Is this still behaving the same?
Comment 3 udippel 2003-04-22 16:02:02 UTC 
Sorry, don't understand your question.
Or maybe I was not clear?
I did an xmodmap -pk -display <display-of-vnc-server> for both the
good (root) sessions (default installed keyboard 'sg'; no need to
remap the keyboard because usually nobody logs on) and the bad (user)
sessions (keyboard set to 'sg' - Swiss Flag) and finally a diff of both.
You should be able to reproduce that.
Comment 4 Kjartan Maraas 2003-10-30 14:24:39 UTC 
I would if I had a working VNC setup to test it on, but I don't sadly.
Comment 5 Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2004-05-01 01:30:08 UTC 
Hello Reporter, do you experience the same problem, thanks for the answer
Comment 6 Kjartan Maraas 2004-09-01 23:33:59 UTC 
Closing. No feedback.