[Bug 43010] New: Wine does not pass scancodes properly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43010

Bug ID: 43010
           Summary: Wine does not pass scancodes properly
           Product: Wine
           Version: 2.7
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: hid
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Wine does not seem to pass the scancodes properly to the Win32 apps.

- On Ubuntu 16.04's Unity desktop, Win32 apps see the situation like the
keyboard was physically rewired to the layout that is currently active.

- On Gnome 3 other hand, it looks like the keyboard was physically rewired to
the uppermost option in the Gnome's keyboard layout configuration (!).

In all cases, the apps that use resulting characters instaed of scancodes work
well, receiving those letters that they are supposed to. Also, xev receives the
proper scancodes.

Please modify Wine so that it will pass the actual, real, physical scancodes to
the apps requiring them. This is absolutely essential for gaming with non-US
and/or non-QWERTY keyboard layouts.

[Bug 43010] Wine does not pass scancodes properly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43010

--- Comment #1 from Iiro Laiho  ---
https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_Developer%27s_Guide/Windowing_system#Keyboard_m...

Apparently Wine translates the mapped characters to scancodes in a some weird
method that involves layouts hard-coded to the Wine source code and guessing
the keyboard layout. It's not really a very robust way to do that. At least on
PC/Linux platform it IMO would be better to just pass the actual scancodes as
they are readily available.

[Bug 43010] Wine does not pass scancodes properly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43010

--- Comment #2 from Iiro Laiho  ---
Oops, I was confusing scancodes and keycodes. Scancodes are converted to
keycodes and then they are converted to characters. IMO wine should convert X11
keycodes directly back to scancodes since neither of them are dependent on
locale. Now wine seems to do something much more complicated and error prone.

[Bug 43010] Wine does not pass scancodes properly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43010

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|hid                         |-unknown

--- Comment #3 from Dmitry Timoshkov  ---
Perhaps reverting the commit that has caused the regression in the bug 15350
may help?

[Bug 43010] Wine does not pass scancodes properly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43010

Iiro Laiho  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |DUPLICATE

--- Comment #4 from Iiro Laiho  ---
Marked as duplicate of bug mentioned by Dmitry Timoshkov, did not notice that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15350 ***

[Bug 43010] Wine does not pass scancodes properly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43010

Austin English  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #5 from Austin English  ---
Closing.