Hi Ulrich, On Di 16 Dez 2014 10:40:06 CET, Ulrich Sibiller wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Robert Siemer > wrote: > >> If the translation is on, you get a skewed setup. >> >> Note that the x2go (with the setting of “do nothing”) does a non-perfect >> copy with the same effect: if the translation is effective, the keyboard is >> skewed and you are force to load at least “something” to fix XKB. If the >> translation is off, you “only” need to load XKB configuration if that >> non-perfect copy annoys you... > >> Thanks for the pointer! I had a look at it. As I suspected: the translation >> is “bad”. Sometimes two different keycodes are translated to the same >> keycode. How are you supposed to tell them apart on the remote side? You >> can’t. >> >>> It seems some kind of translation from evdev to pc105 is done. >> >> The naming is a little funny: the keycodes generated by the kernel before >> evdev were not called like that, were they? > > I don't think so. > >>> Do we need to disable setting >>> up the translation within the nx code to make that work? >> >> That would be great as a first step. > > I was wondering why this translations had been introduced. It emerged > between nxagent 3.2.0-10 and 3.3.0-9. The changelog between these > releases contains (among others) these changes: > > nxagent-3.3.0-9 > > - Changed Keyboard initialization and reset. This change should fix > TR11F02129, TR11F02131, TR11F02132. > > nxagent-3.3.0-4 > > - Fix the XKB map load in the case of 64 bit server. > > nxagent-3.3.0-3 > > - Fixed TR10F02119. If the remote X display is using evdev keyboard > then copy maps from remote. > > nxagent-3.2.0-12 > > - Fixed TR08E01814. Added shadow keymap initialization in order to > enable nxcompshad to translate keycodes across different layouts. > > So it MIGHT have been introduced mainly for shadow sessions. The > TR10F02119 refers to Ubuntu 8.10, which - according to some other > posts I found - is the version that introduced evdev. So the fix that > solved evdev problems is causing problems when evdev is enabled. > > I also looked at the source and found that clearing the property seems > to be the only way to disable the translation. (apart from disabling > XKB completely). > > Uli Note that you can view the changes between versions of nxagent via nx-libs.git [1]. Use the "commitdiff" links in the right column... Mike [1] http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/nxagent -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb