Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> (2) Simply use the host's raw keys.
>>
>> The guest needs to understand the host's raw keys, and map them if
>> they differ from its own idea of raw keys. At this time, the only
>> idea of raw keys in town is Linux keycodes, so no mapping is
>> necessary.
>>
>> Nice: simple & stupid.
>>
>> Unless I misunderstand Anthony, that's what rdesktop and qemu do.
>
> <unimportant side node>
> Well, there are some corner cases where you can't easily get the hosts
> raw keys. In that case qemu tries to translate the keysyms back to
> raw keycodes using the maps in /usr/share/qemu/keymaps. See also qemu
> manpage, "-k" switch.
> </>
>
> But, yes, using linux keycodes as wire encoding IMHO is the way to go.
>
> cheers,
> Gerd
>
So, perhaps the patch I post sometime ago on this subject should be useful ?
Laurent
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