vinagre uses wrong keyboard layout

[Frederik Elwert]

Binary package hint: vinagre

In a VNC session between a Lucid machine (vino server) and a Natty machine (vinagre client), both using a German locale with German keyboard layout, the key events set from client to server use a different keyboard layout (probably US-English). If I remember correctly, a Lucid client sent the correct (German) key events.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: vinagre 2.30.3-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 19 22:15:46 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vinagre
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: vinagre
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-01 (18 days ago)

[georg.hoermann (georg-hoermann)]

same here with tighvnc from a windows machine to 11.04, it works fine with xfce4

[Frederik Elwert (frederik-elwert)]

@georg.hoermann: So are you using a tightvnc client to log into a vino server on 11.04?

That might be a hint that I falsely accused vinagre, and the actual issue is with vino. OTOH, as I only upgraded the client machine to 11.04, I thought that the bug was introduced in the vinagre client with 11.04.

We probably need some more research here, I’ll see if I can find the time to play around a bit with various client/server combinations.

[Frederik Elwert (frederik-elwert)]

Here’s what I found out so far:

When accessing vino on Ubuntu 10.04 from both vinagre on 10.04 and 11.04, I experience a problem with not all key presses being transmitted. It seems not to be actually the case that a wrong keyboard layout is applied, since the keys that are transmitted are correct. But not all key presses are transmitted, e.g. umlauts (ä,ö,ü), the euro sign etc. are not displayed on the server. So it somehow seems that only ascii (?) keycodes are received on the server, but using the correct keyboard layout.

When accessing vino on Ubuntu 11.04 from vinagre on 10.04, all keys work correctly.

Thus, for me it currently seems that the issue is within vino, but apparently was fixed in the version that shipps with Ubuntu 11.04.

@georg.hoermann: Does this match your observations?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[costales (costales)]

If the 'first_run' file not exists all works right. Protect the directory for avoid a new creation. In the Terminal:

user@computer:~$ rm ~/.local/share/vinagre/first_run
user@computer:~$ chmod ug-w ~/.local/share/vinagre/

Cheers!

[costales (costales)]

I'm sorry, that not works. Remmina app works right.

[Alexandre Magno (alexandre-mbm)]

- Server: Windows 7 Home Premium with the newer UltraVNC
- Client: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS updated with Vinagre

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