keystrokes not received correctly when sending to Virtualbox

[Jeff H]

Certain keys are not received correctly when attempting to send to a VM window on the remote desktop. I've tested this with Ubuntu's built-in Remote Desktop VNC viewer, and with Android VNC. The one that consistently misses is '.', but there are others, and some miss occasionally but not always.

Examples in a Windows XP VM:

Ubuntu's remote desktop:

The '.' key will cannot be typed into a URL bar, making it impossible to browse the web

Android VNC:

Text must be typed on the mobile device, and sent all at once. Sending "http://192.168.1.1" may come over as Htp://19216811, or another similarly jumbled mess.

This is an absolute show stopper for machines intended to be a VM host that are to be administered remotely via VNC. My reasoning that vino is causing the problem was based on the bug consistently happening regardless of the VNC client.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: vino 2.32.1-0ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jul 31 12:36:05 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vino
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported