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gtk-vnc package

  1. Bug #212013
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 212013

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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote :

Thanks Emilio!

libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 version 0.3.7-0ubuntu2.1 from the PPA tested with the following setup

local machine (vinagre): Intrepid, Finnish keyboard
remote machine (vino): Hardy, Finnish keyboard

when using Emacs on the remote machine: All AltGr combinations work: @ £ $ { [ ] } \ € ~ |

However, when using Windows XP in Vmware Workstation in the remote machine, AltGr combinations don't work. AltGr
doesn't seem to be received, the "unaltered" characters are produced.

Of course there now 2 closed source products involved and it would be easy to blame them. However, what I don't understand is: Vmware is externally nothing else but an X Windows client, isn't it? This X Windows client can handle the input from the physical Finnish keyboard correctly. Shouldn't the input from vino be exactly the same? So the inner layers of closed source software shouldn't be able to tell the difference and should have no chance to screw anything up.

Any advice how to debug this is welcome.