[Bug 23569] New: Certain keyboard keys don't work in Wine when using VNC
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 Summary: Certain keyboard keys don't work in Wine when using VNC Product: Wine Version: 1.2-rc6 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P1 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org ReportedBy: WillWill56(a)gmail.com Bug: While connected to a computer via VNC, certain keys that work perfectly fine in native programs on the remote computer are not picked up in Wine programs on the remote computer. Example: Holding shift and pressing the keys 1234567890 in gedit produces "!@#$%^&*()", but typing the same into Wine Notepad produces "12345678", showing that the shift key and curved brackets are not getting from VNC to Wine. Speculation: Keys should be sent VNC Client --> VNC Server --> Wine, but somewhere along the line the process is broken. But when keys are sent VNC Client --> VNC Server --> Generic GNOME App it works fine. Reproduction: The VNC Client is RealVNC on Windows XP SP3, and the VNC Server is x11vnc on Ubuntu 10.04 (previously tried Ubuntu's built in VNC server, same bug occured) (this may not matter, but try an Ubuntu -> Ubuntu VNC connection and see if the bug occurs). Try holding shift and typing capital text, curved brackets, symbols etc into a simple Wine app like Notepad running on the Ubuntu computer, then try typing the same into a simple GNOME app like gedit. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P1 |P2 --- Comment #1 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> 2010-07-09 04:45:04 --- How does 'xev' output look like? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 --- Comment #2 from WillWill56(a)gmail.com 2010-07-10 07:51:15 --- Created an attachment (id=29500) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=29500) xev output -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 WillWill56(a)gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P2 |P1 Severity|minor |trivial --- Comment #3 from WillWill56(a)gmail.com 2010-07-10 07:52:09 --- Update: Sorry, I have cleared a few things up and apparently most of the keys work fine, the only keys that remain broken in Wine but not in other apps are brackets (these things), which don't appear at all but work fine in other apps when typed through VNC. xev output reports the shift key and ( ) keys being pressed, I've attached a snippet of the output where I press the keys in the VNC client, no other output seems relevant (all mouse events, nothing strange). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P1 |P2 --- Comment #4 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> 2010-07-10 12:00:00 --- Please generate a +event,+key,+keyboard,+xim log, and attach it here. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 --- Comment #5 from WillWill56(a)gmail.com 2010-07-10 21:31:35 --- Not sure what you mean, what would you use to generate this log, would it just be xev with a few more options? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 --- Comment #6 from Andrew Nguyen <arethusa26(a)gmail.com> 2010-07-10 21:36:45 --- (In reply to comment #5)
Not sure what you mean, what would you use to generate this log, would it just be xev with a few more options?
See http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-16da35b6327024d6ea576e3678488b16862d0f5e for instructions. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 --- Comment #7 from WillWill56(a)gmail.com 2010-07-11 06:09:58 --- Created an attachment (id=29522) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=29522) Wine debug trace output (In reply to comment #4)
Please generate a +event,+key,+keyboard,+xim log, and attach it here.
A log of me writing a text file and attempting to use brackets in Wine Notepad from VNC. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 WillWill56(a)gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P2 |P1 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P1 |P2 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 --- Comment #8 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> 2010-07-11 23:24:15 --- (In reply to comment #7)
A log of me writing a text file and attempting to use brackets in Wine Notepad from VNC.
It would be much better if you would press just the problematic key(s). Please generate another log. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|Certain keyboard keys don't |Certain keyboard keys don't |work in Wine when using VNC |work when using VNC -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #29522|application/x-itunes-itlp |application/octet-stream mime type| | -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 WillWill56(a)gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #29522|0 |1 is obsolete| | --- Comment #9 from WillWill56(a)gmail.com 2010-07-12 03:06:42 --- Created an attachment (id=29553) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=29553) Wine debug trace output (In reply to comment #8)
It would be much better if you would press just the problematic key(s). Please generate another log.
OK, a log of starting notepad, pressing the left bracket, pressing the right bracket, closing notepad. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 --- Comment #10 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> 2010-07-12 03:40:10 --- (In reply to comment #9)
OK, a log of starting notepad, pressing the left bracket, pressing the right bracket, closing notepad.
Thanks. The problem starts here: trace:keyboard:X11DRV_InitKeyboard keycode 187 => vkey 0000 then once there is a KeyPress even: trace:event:call_event_handler 47 KeyPress for hwnd/window 0x10052/5200001 trace:key:X11DRV_KeyEvent type 2, window 5200001, state 0x0011, keycode 187 trace:keyboard:X11DRV_KeyEvent XmbLookupString needs 1 byte(s) trace:key:X11DRV_KeyEvent nbyte = 1, status 4 trace:key:X11DRV_KeyEvent KeyPress : keysym=28 (parenleft), # of chars=1 / "(" trace:key:EVENT_event_to_vkey e->keycode = 187 trace:key:X11DRV_KeyEvent keycode 187 converted to vkey 0xFC keycode 187 actually gets converted to vkey 0, and the code assumes that's the special case and converts it to VK_NONAME (0xFC), which is an internal trick to handle dead keys. Keyboard detection code is to blame here. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 --- Comment #11 from WillWill56(a)gmail.com 2010-07-12 04:38:13 --- So, it's a problem with Wine itself or... ? I hope I'm helping to improve Wine in some way. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever Confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #12 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> 2010-07-12 04:43:14 --- (In reply to comment #11)
So, it's a problem with Wine itself or... ?
Yes, it's the problem in Wine keyboard detection code. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 Josh <b367719(a)rppkn.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |b367719(a)rppkn.com --- Comment #13 from Josh <b367719(a)rppkn.com> 2012-03-09 06:57:07 CST --- Still a problem. I'd say the severity should be bumped to minor, while the priority can be whatever to reflect the probably small fraction of affected users. I prefer Notepad++, which needs Wine to work. Try coding without the use of parens (having to copy and paste them in when needed)! It gets really tiring and is a large disruption to productivity. I find myself not using Notepad++ more and more, which is no better than if the program crashed regularly. The only thing that keeps me from suggesting a severity of normal is that there is indeed a straight-forward workaround. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 --- Comment #14 from Josh <b367719(a)rppkn.com> 2012-04-01 09:44:50 CDT --- Same problem with TeamViewer. Actually worse with TeamViewer, as I'm now unable to type any symbols other than >. And > only comes out when I try to type <. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 vidya sagar <sagar.tv(a)gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sagar.tv(a)gmail.com --- Comment #15 from vidya sagar <sagar.tv(a)gmail.com> 2012-05-15 12:09:08 CDT --- (In reply to comment #13)
Still a problem. I'd say the severity should be bumped to minor, while the priority can be whatever to reflect the probably small fraction of affected users. I prefer Notepad++, which needs Wine to work. Try coding without the use of parens (having to copy and paste them in when needed)! It gets really tiring and is a large disruption to productivity. I find myself not using Notepad++ more and more, which is no better than if the program crashed regularly. The only thing that keeps me from suggesting a severity of normal is that there is indeed a straight-forward workaround.
Could you please tell me what is that "straight-forward workaround" we have for this problem ? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 --- Comment #16 from Josh <b367719(a)rppkn.com> 2012-07-17 08:55:43 CDT --- The easiest workaround is to not mix VNC or teamviewer with Wine. So either have a backup editor or use x11 forwarding on the side or edit the file with a local editor and saving to a network location. 2 years though... I assume the delay is because dead key support is awkwardly integrated and would be a pain to tweak? Are dead keys really more beneficially to users than parens and other symbols over remote connections? Both seem like they could be small compared to the entire userbase, but... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 Psy[H[] <pzs-fs(a)yandex.ru> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pzs-fs(a)yandex.ru --- Comment #17 from Psy[H[] <pzs-fs(a)yandex.ru> 2013-06-27 11:53:29 CDT --- Just stumbled upon this. Using VNC, about a half of cyrillic symbols in russian layout, mostly the right part of the keyboard affected. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 lt-83(a)hotmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |lt-83(a)hotmail.com --- Comment #18 from lt-83(a)hotmail.com --- Just noticed this bug as well. Using TeamViewer 9 and Wine 1.7.15 on Ubuntu 14.04 (development branch), en_US.UTF8, and any symbols above the keyboard numbers (e.g. !@#$%) or any of the symbols that require a shift key press do not show up under wine notepad or Office 2010 apps. Capital letters with shift key do work, however. Would be nice to see this fixed eventually. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 --- Comment #19 from Austin English <austinenglish(a)gmail.com> --- This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for over a year. Is this still an issue in current (1.7.51 or newer) wine? -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 temp82(a)luukku.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |temp82(a)luukku.com --- Comment #20 from temp82(a)luukku.com --- see bug 1181 comment 1. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
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