On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 09:56:46AM +0100, Daniel Espling wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> getting the following message:
>> 
>> unknown keycodes `empty_aliases(qwerty)', please report to qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>> 
>> I'm connecting to a ubuntu 10.04 server running qemu 1.0.50 forwarding X11.
>> Locally I'm on a Macbook pro with Swedish keyboard layout. When I run qemu my
>> keyboard is totally messed up (Enter becomes j, j becomes 7 etc.). Running
>> with -k en-us works but restricts me to english characters (swedish characters
>> generates keysym errors, which is expected)
> 
> Unfortunately, the SDL code as written pretty much only copes with an XFree86
> server running on a Linux host. Running any kind of X server on OS-X or
> Windows and forwarding to an app running Linux will result in fubar keyboard
> mappings as you see.
> 
> The problem is that keymapping code assumes that it is getting either a'xt'
> or 'evdev' based keycodes from the X server. On OS-X you instead get a
> variant on Mac OS keycodes which are completely different.
> 
> I've solved this problem in GTK-VNC by adding checks for the OS-X and Win32
> X servers:
> 
>  http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk-vnc/tree/src/vncdisplaykeymap.c
> 
> Can you provide the output of  'xdpyinfo' and 'xprop -root | grep XKB'
> just so I can confirm my code will work. If so, I'll port the GTK-VNC
> code to QEMU's  SDL display to fix this.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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