unable to type "|" character in french keyboard.

[Aditya prakash]

Unable to type "|" character when using french keyboard. It is displaying "<" instead of "|" while pressing AltGr+6 from my keyboard.

[Daniel Berrange (berrange)]

Can you provide more information here. What command line have you launched QEMU with ? How are you interacting with QEMU (serial console, GTK UI, VNC, SPICE ?) If VNC/SPICE, what client app are you using ?

[Aditya prakash (adioracle)]

Hi Daniel, Thanks for your response. I am using virt-manager to start with to connect with VNC.

[Daniel Berrange (berrange)]

Can you provide the QEMU command line (/var/log/libvirt/qemu/$GUEST.log)

[Laurent Vivier (laurent-vivier)]

Check you have selected the french keymap in virt-manager (see attached picture)

[Daniel Berrange (berrange)]

Actually you explicitly do *NOT* want to select any keymap in virt-manager in general. Picking a keymap disables the VNC protocol extension for raw scancodes. This means that QEMU has to do keymap <-> scancode conversion. In such a setup the host OS desktop keymap, the QEMU keymap and the guest OS keymap all have to match perfectly to avoid bad conversions.

By *not* selecting a keymap, virt-manager gets raw scancodes on the local host OS desktop and passes them unmodified to QEMU, which then passes them on to the guest OS. In this case, the guest OS keymap is the only thing that has todo conversions & this should be reliable.

The only reason to select a keymap for QEMU is if you need to use legacy VNC clients which don't support the raw scancode protocol extension. This shouldn't be required if using virt-manager only. Ideally virt-manager should not even show this config option by default.

[Laurent Vivier (laurent-vivier)]

Yes, it works without selecting a keyboard on my machine with a french keyboard.

But perhaps Aditya has explicitly selected another keyboard than "fr" or "Auto"?

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

Aditya, does the problem still persist? If so, could you please provide the QEMU command line as requested by Daniel?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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