libvirt: keyboard anomalies under virt-manager with ubuntu guests

[Jamie Strandboge]

On hardy, with dapper through hardy guests and vmdk disk.

If I boot into text-mode (ie no X), then modify a longish file in vi (eg /etc/X11/xorg.conf), if I hold an arrow key to scroll, once the screen catches up with the scrolling, I no longer can use the 'Shift' key. Pressing 'Ctrl+Shift', waiting awhile (several seconds), then clicking into the virt-manager window so it grabs focus will sometimes allow the shift key to work again.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Here is a better way to repoduce:

1. boot into text mode
2. login
3. hold backspace key for 5 seconds (maybe longer)
4. type Shift+S

and here is how to get the shift key back:
1. press Ctrl+Alt
2. click 'View/Graphical Console' from within the Virtual Machine Details
3. click in the virt-manager window (so it grabs focus)

[Jan Ischebeck (siesel)]

I got similar keyboard anomalies in text mode (debian 4.0 guest) using virt-viewer.

After some time some keys start disappearing between host and guest.
In most cases "Shift" stops to work. Pressing "Shift" + "a" results in no character send.
Sometimes even standard keys like "s" or "a" stops to work.

After switching to another window and back to the original window the behavior is ok again.

[Soren Hansen (soren)]

There's a good chance this will be fixed, when https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk-vnc/+bug/199054 gets approved. Stay tuned.

[Soren Hansen (soren)]

Reassigning to gtk-vnc

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gtk-vnc - 0.3.4-0ubuntu1

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gtk-vnc (0.3.4-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (FFe: LP: #199054).
    - Dropped ext_key_event.diff (now in upstream proper).
  * Fix various keyboard and focus anomalies (LP: #193427, #193417, #193443).
  * Update Maintainer: field to reflect promotion to main.

 -- Soren Hansen <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:49:04 +0100